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Story: What *NIX has wrong for the desktop: Top 12Total Replies: 3
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jezuch

Aug 17, 2007
4:09 AM EDT
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

Aug 17, 2007
12:36 PM EDT 		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

Aug 17, 2007
3:18 PM EDT 		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

Aug 17, 2007
6:41 PM EDT 		>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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