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Ubuntu 9.04 Is As Slick As Win7, Mac OS X
An anonymous reader writes in with an opinion piece from ZDNet Australia. "Here's what the official press release won't tell you about Ubuntu 9.04, which formally hit the streets yesterday: its designers have polished the hell out of its user interface since the last release in October. Just like Microsoft has taken the blowtorch to Vista to produce the lightning-quick Windows 7, which so far runs well even on older hardware, Ubuntu has picked up its own game."
Nah, I figure that they didn't provide screenshots because they can't figure out how to take screenshots on Linux. Perhaps they need a newer libjpg or libscreencap or something and don't know how to change their repository to the non-trusted and run a sudo apt-grab-some-shit?
Oh, you're gay? Hey, it's ok...
I know I'm a little biased, but I find OS X to still be the best consumer OS. This is not to say bad things about Windows 7 and Ubuntu, but those tw OS's are simply not at the same level in terms of usability.
What limits Ubuntu and various other Linux distros is the GNOME user interface. I know KDE fans will beg to differ, but the recent changes to KDE 4 took a long time to stabilize.
What limits GNOME and KDE is that those environments traditionally offered copies of the Windows UI with subtle differences. Granted, they've distinguished themselves more in recent years, but artifacts of the Windows UI, such as menubars in the windows, no grouping of applications (ex ATL-TAB is for windows, not apps, not possible to close apps, etc), and the broken taskbar paradigm (vs the Dock, which Windows 7 has emulated) remain.
OS X was built from the ground up with a totally different UI design from Windows. As such, it actually groups applications together, and application windows follow logically. There are more options for task or window switch than just ALT-TAB (ex Expose), and installing and uninstalling applications is much easier with .app folders.
Until Ubuntu and other Unix variants come up with better (or at least substantially different) UI design paradigms than past versions of Windows, it will be limited in how well they can compete with OS X in terms of usability.
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I find the choice of brown interesting, and it reminds me of Apples (?) Zune ad which goes something like: ..., ... brown"
"It's really nice,
Fine, it doesn't have Photoshop Elements.
BTW, people can buy CS3 for less than half CS4's MSRP.
For all the freetards do, they still can't equal the ease of use of Windows. It's the universal corporate standard for a reason. Canonical's shit-colored desktop doesn't work.
Don't take my word for it--download the live CD yourself and try it. If you like it better than Windows I'll eat my own ass. (It'll be the color of Ubuntu.) If everyone tried the CD they'd see how bad it was. Windows advocates do download it and know how badly it sucks.
Go on, mod me down, Canonical shills--but you can't hide how much your system sucks forever.
Again, don't take my word for it--download the live CD. Really, do this. You'll see just how much it sucks.
I use my iPhone regularly.
And you use the latest Ubuntu release on your iPhone so you need it to support touch screen? If not then your post seems to have absolutely no relevance to this thread.
http://blog.nexusuk.org
Huh.
Mods, read up:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/userexperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/XHIGIntro/XHIGIntro.html
1) RTFA ...
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3) Stop posting stupid remarks that are answered in the first paragraph of the article.