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Making Things Easy Is Hard

Posted by simoniker on from the esr-and-the-printer-cable-of-secrets dept.

paul.dunne writes "John Gruber of Daring Fireball has written a long and considered riposte to Eric Raymond's recent lament concerning the poor quality of user interfaces in free software. The core of his argument is that 'developing software with a good UI requires both aptitude and a lot of hard work.' One point that particularly struck me: according to Gruber, 'Unix nerds who care about usability are switching to Mac OS X in droves'!"

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  1. Mac OS X usable? You gotta be kidding! by Technomancer · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    I know that I will be modded down but I have to say it.

    Max OS X is like Enlightenment on steroids.
    It is totally unusable, just has lots of fast eye candy.

    To do anything remotely useful you need to know a milion secret key combos. Mac users are one damn secret handshake society.

    Now mod me down and keep bathing in the warm glow of Steve's reality distortion field.

    (I do have a Mac)