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What *NIX has wrong for the desktop: Top 12

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Beranger; By Radu-Cristian Fotescu 		Mail this story
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The good part of *NIX-like systems is that some basic concepts are extremely well designed, starting with the filesystem philosophy and the security metaphor. Therefore, using Linux or BSD on your home desktop or on your laptop instead of Windows is not only a question of ideology or price — it's a matter of good taste. There are however a few places where something is under-optimal, not because GNU/Linux or *BSD are following "ancient *NIX principles", but simply because *NIX operating systems were designed in the times of the mainframes and minicomputers, where everything was a server, and usability issues like those raised by nowadays desktop/laptop computers were not considered.

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Comments (4)

jezuch ·
Quoting:Now, that was all for now. Obviously, everything can be fixed. This can't change the history though, and the fact that *NIX systems were not designed for your home desktop, and even less for a laptop...


Tell that to Steve Jobs...
mvermeer ·
It's like building a house: you can fix up what it looks like afterwards with a paint job. But cut corners with the bearing structures and you can forget about fixing it up.
jezuch ·
The point is that OSX is Unix too. Somehow those "cut corners" don't bother those who believe that it's the Desktop/Laptop Nirvana...
dinotrac ·
>Tell that to Steve Jobs

Don't be too proud of that comeback. Apple pretty much wrote its own user interface. It doesn't use X and has little in common with other Unix desktops.

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