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Where would Linux be without Windows and Mac OS X to borrow ideas from?
by seunosewa 15y ago
Where would Linux be without Windows and Mac OS X to borrow ideas from?
- jjtheblunt 15y agoI'd argue Linux is an open source reimplementation of Solaris more than of OSX or Windows.
- steve-howard 15y agoMoreover, much as I love it, most free software usually has a huge gap in usability and QA, because those are the boring parts of writing software.
- tikhonj 15y agoProbably somewhere more efficient but with less useless (but admittedly cool looking :)) eye-candy. The main reason common distributions have features similar to Windows and OS X is to make transitioning easier. Really serious people using e.g. Arch with XMonad are more efficient with very little Windows/OS X influence. And hey, Linux could borrow those features even more easily if Windows or OS X were open source. Windows being open source would be complicated, but Apple is a hardware company and would work well enough with an open source OS at its heart.