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On 06/20/2009 08:43 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote: > From: Richard Pieri<richard.pieri-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> > Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:17:12 -0400 > > On Jun 20, 2009, at 5:05 PM, Tom Metro wrote: > > Obviously the important question is whether any of these Mac-specific > > features matter to you. If they do, then that says you need a Mac, > > otherwise you go for the functionality that is relevant to your > > practical needs. > > I did push OS X as the best desktop Unix out there. There's a > reason for that. > > A matter of taste. Personally, I can't stand the Mac interface for > the following reasons: > > 1) It's "click to raise and type" -- you have to take action more than > just moving the pointer over the window to activate it, and then it > brings it to the top. There are extensions that will add that exact functionality to Mac OS X for you. > 2) I find the menu bar separate from the application window > disconcerting. I was a loooong-time Mac user (first family computer was a Mac SE in '88, and I never had anything *but* Macs all the way up to college. Still had multiple Macs, but also got my first PC, built out of spare junk parts at the computer shop I was working at... Cyrix 166MHz clunker, iirc...), but have used almost nothing but Linux for the better part of the last 4 or 5 years. I still use a Mac periodically (I have four of them in the house), but there was a point just last week where I was very confused for a moment about where the hell the menu for the window I was working in had gone off to... :) --jarod
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