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I wish people would think of the shell as just another form of UI that happens to run on text rather than graphical widgets.

by Sirenos 12y ago

serge2k 12y ago
and I wish linux wasn't a horribly buggy hard to use desktop OS. Fortunately my macbook combines a good desktop environment with what I need for work. I just my windows PC for my games and such. Linux can sit on my server where it belongs.
- justinreeves 12y ago
  Just because it's hard for you, doesn't mean it's hard for everyone. Lots of people seem to be using it just fine.
- apetrovic 12y ago
  Yeah, OS X is great. What, fonts looks like shit when you attach your non-retina external monitor to your shiny retina MacBook Pro? No biggie, just open Terminal or iTerm and type: defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 3 You're upset because in Mavericks sleep and display off times are lumped together? The solution is just a few keystrokes away: sudo pmset -b sleep 10 # sleep after 10 minutes on battery; use System Preferences to set display off times Want to see Library folder in Finder? chflags nohidden /Users/[username]/Library/ Don't see the point of Dashboard? Terminal-fu to the rescue: defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES killall Dock ... etc, etc. Don't get me wrong, my home server runs on Debian, and boy it was an adventure sometimes to install non-blessed packages (read: something less than two years old), but unless you're using an appliance (read: iOS device), every OS have it's share of weird incarnations if you want to do anything, well, advanced.
- jlgaddis 12y ago
  > and I wish linux wasn't a horribly buggy hard to use desktop OS. Compared to the state of "Linux on the desktop" when I first used it, it is absolutely amazing -- no more manually configuring my NICs using jumpers, no more writing a PPP config file (and chat script!) by hand (from scratch), no more running out to buy a different video card because mine isn't supported. It's not perfect by any means but it is certainly usable by a majority of the population.

I wish people would think of the shell as just another form of UI that happens to run on text rather than graphical widgets.

by Sirenos 12y ago

I wish people would think of the shell as just another form of UI that happens to run on text rather than graphical widgets.

serge2k 12y ago

and I wish linux wasn't a horribly buggy hard to use desktop OS. Fortunately my macbook combines a good desktop environment with what I need for work. I just my windows PC for my games and such. Linux can sit on my server where it belongs.

justinreeves 12y ago
Just because it's hard for you, doesn't mean it's hard for everyone. Lots of people seem to be using it just fine.
apetrovic 12y ago
Yeah, OS X is great. What, fonts looks like shit when you attach your non-retina external monitor to your shiny retina MacBook Pro? No biggie, just open Terminal or iTerm and type: defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 3 You're upset because in Mavericks sleep and display off times are lumped together? The solution is just a few keystrokes away: sudo pmset -b sleep 10 # sleep after 10 minutes on battery; use System Preferences to set display off times Want to see Library folder in Finder? chflags nohidden /Users/[username]/Library/ Don't see the point of Dashboard? Terminal-fu to the rescue: defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES killall Dock ... etc, etc. Don't get me wrong, my home server runs on Debian, and boy it was an adventure sometimes to install non-blessed packages (read: something less than two years old), but unless you're using an appliance (read: iOS device), every OS have it's share of weird incarnations if you want to do anything, well, advanced.
jlgaddis 12y ago
> and I wish linux wasn't a horribly buggy hard to use desktop OS. Compared to the state of "Linux on the desktop" when I first used it, it is absolutely amazing -- no more manually configuring my NICs using jumpers, no more writing a PPP config file (and chat script!) by hand (from scratch), no more running out to buy a different video card because mine isn't supported. It's not perfect by any means but it is certainly usable by a majority of the population.