Re: I've thought better of Linux


Ulrich Hobelmann <u.hobelmann@xxxxxx> writes:

> Greg Menke wrote:
> > Now I will conceed that OS X is the first Apple OS that doesn't make me
> > want to throw the computer out the nearest window, so I agree it has
> > improved. OTOH, the user interface "niceness" of OS X is pretty much
> > limited to the gui, once you're down in the terminal window its quite
> > opaque and difficult to manage- especially compared to Solaris which has
> > excellent & well documented management/config utilities at the
> > command-line.
>
> Why's that? I can only say that with my Mac for some reason I didn't
> touch most Unix programs at all anymore, because I didn't need to. But
> there's documentation and man-pages for everything.

No theres not- for one example not even google will cough up the details
of how startupitems are sequenced and configured. There are some
references from mac related online/paper magazines showing how they can
be set up, but nothing comprehensive and nothing at all about how to
approach debugging. There is also no documentation about how to
influence the unixy tasks that preceed startupitems, the user is
basically forced to grep files in /etc and do google searches and induce
what to modify. If you use OS X as a client OS or a very simplistic
server then there isn't much need for the command line- just like most
any other OS.


> And the GUI is really quite un-in-your-face (unlike Windows, Gnome, KDE)
> and comfy.

If you say so- all I see are more things eye candy which needs to be
ignored and more gui stuff that need to be clicked to make it go away
and no obvious way to get multiple desktops. Expose is pretty cool, but
when you have a bunch of stuff going in parallel its still too
cluttered.

Gregm
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