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<-- Down votes go here and by all means, please don't respond. Interesting. My personal workstation runs Windows and I too effortlessly SSH and RDP into many h

by WayneDB 13y ago

<-- Down votes go here and by all means, please don't respond. Interesting. My personal workstation runs Windows and I too effortlessly SSH and RDP into many headless or virtual machines to dick around and (occasionally) to do actual work. Hey, I also run Chrome, Skype, TweetDeck, Spotify, SSH and the like and I have been for years...on the same install of Windows. It's like your calculus doesn't work at all in my universe. Actually...I don't think you're doing calculus at all. Also, have you ever seen the source of Chrome? It's not that simple. Lay-people think it's simple, but software developers know better.

ajross 13y ago
I laughed at the "incredibly simple" bit myself. I'm sure it must seem that way to people who live at the top of the stack doing javascript hackery and MongoDB maintenance. It's amusing how few people, even in this world of open source everywhere, have ever bothered to do something as simple (in an only-slightly-ironic sense of "simple") as build an OS distribution. Android might be the "simplest" of this kind of thing, and it's still a 10G+ tree.
- WayneDB 13y ago
  I would have accepted "it's Unix". I think that's got to be the biggest reason techies run Macs.
  - reeses 13y ago
    kill -9 Word Need I say more? :-)
    - 65a 13y ago
      no, because it's probably just an alias to less
sneak 13y ago
"A browser" is simple from a "a process that talks to the network and draws things on screen" standpoint. I'm not suggesting that Chrome isn't a complex application - just that it's self-contained and very well tested and doesn't do anything special with the OS or hardware (drivers, USB, video modes, etc). My workflow would work on Windows, too, aside from the fact that it'd suck. (Example: Unplug an external USB audio interface while a song is playing. OSX skips a beat and then plays via internal speakers, at the previous internal-speaker-volume-level.) I could travel with luggage that isn't Pelican/Incase, too— but I don't.

by WayneDB 13y ago

ajross 13y ago

I laughed at the "incredibly simple" bit myself. I'm sure it must seem that way to people who live at the top of the stack doing javascript hackery and MongoDB maintenance. It's amusing how few people, even in this world of open source everywhere, have ever bothered to do something as simple (in an only-slightly-ironic sense of "simple") as build an OS distribution. Android might be the "simplest" of this kind of thing, and it's still a 10G+ tree.

WayneDB 13y ago
I would have accepted "it's Unix". I think that's got to be the biggest reason techies run Macs.
- reeses 13y ago
  kill -9 Word Need I say more? :-)
  - 65a 13y ago
    no, because it's probably just an alias to less

sneak 13y ago

"A browser" is simple from a "a process that talks to the network and draws things on screen" standpoint. I'm not suggesting that Chrome isn't a complex application - just that it's self-contained and very well tested and doesn't do anything special with the OS or hardware (drivers, USB, video modes, etc). My workflow would work on Windows, too, aside from the fact that it'd suck. (Example: Unplug an external USB audio interface while a song is playing. OSX skips a beat and then plays via internal speakers, at the previous internal-speaker-volume-level.) I could travel with luggage that isn't Pelican/Incase, too— but I don't.