Thread: No wonder Windows 7 is the best Windows yet...

Quote: Originally Posted by censored [Edit: Leaving the forum for a while, and, with some luck, for good, so I won't be able to respond, whether the above is shown to be incorrect or correct or a bit of both. My final - I hope - comment here would be that personal computers have come a long way, but they're still way too difficult for the average Joe and Jill, even desktop OSX. Perhaps smartphones and ebook readers and the like, or...

Quote: Originally Posted by canucklehead Actually Gartner report groups OSX on the server with Unix since it is a Unix and not Unix like any more. I was pointing out what a few Apple salesman told me when I asked if I can install Snow Leopard on my PC. They all said NO it can't be done and won't work! I then asked if they had ever heard of a Hackintosh? They were not amused and said that is illegal!....

Quote: Originally Posted by djk Mostly in usability and UX. So good that both Microsoft and Canonical have went on the record, stating they're trying to emulate it. In addition, some others. Grand Central Dispatch. Time Machine. Spotlight. Spotlight was on Linux (Beagle). Time Machine's just incremental versioned backup (borrows some licensed technology from Sun); such already existed, even on Macs. Very nice interface though, and...

Quote: Originally Posted by WoodPeckr Mainly because their OS can't run on PCs.... Yet another example of those "patently false" comments that the Linux fanbois make. Hey, no commentary about Shuttleworth's move to copy OS X's usability and polish? Figures.

Quote: Originally Posted by WoodPeckr I was pointing out what a few Apple salesman told me when I asked if I can install Snow Leopard on my PC. They all said NO it can't be done and won't work! I then asked if they had ever heard of a Hackintosh? They were not amused and said that is illegal!.... Sooo .... retail people for the average consumer.... your point? I know this Linux know it all .... he doesn't even know the origin...

Quote: Originally Posted by danmand Sorry, I misread Linux for Unix. Me look stupid. PS: I dealt with Bell Labs in the 70's and 80's. Tsk Tsk - the whole point here is to make Woodpeckr look stupid.

Quote: Originally Posted by WoodPeckr Come on bottie, nobody can top your endless Bubba thread for stupidity... Oh, but I think he has surpassed his own stupidity many times since then. He still has not found the bottom.

Well, if a Linux distro can be like Mac OS then that wouldn't be Linux anymore (at least it will lose Linux's true heritage). That distro most likely won't be free either, hence average Linux users will be against it. Linux is for pure hardcore geeks and it should be reserved for that market segment.

Quote: Originally Posted by djk Hmm. http://blogs.technet.com/jamesu/arch...e-olpc-xo.aspx http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-9945438-56.html Well I don't see Apple taking part in this do I? MS is late to the party on this one too. The point is that Linux is not exclusively about the Desktop market. Linux has displaced Unix in the server world and sits at the top of Server OS market share. Windows is 3rd or 4th place. Apple is not in the...

graphical interfaces are not exclusive to Mac. Many OS share similar traits because they are supposed to be getting easier to use overall.