Simplicity In the Age Of The GUI

evenprime writes: "Wired is running a story on Mark Hurst's extremely retro GoodEasy computing environment, and how it's old fashioned *nix approach to computing -- flat text, small simple programs that can be chained together -- increases user productivity" It's an interesting, hyper-simple approach, though any user outside of Mark's agency would have to apply some creative adaption. Every few months, I try to re-organize and simplify the documents and programs on my system, this looks like a good experiment for the next time.

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Don't buy macs

[oliverthered]

THis guy brough a MAC, he is now learning that the reduced learning curve of a macs u results in piss poor performance after ohh a day or so. MAC's are for twats that's why it rymes.