.... take that money you spend on the GPU, and spend it on a motherboard with i7 and integrated GPU, and you'll likely get a speed up as well. with faster processing for everything else.
Well... netgear is "ok", but for example the last router/ap from netgear I replaced with an airport extreme. I went frm having barely any signal at the other end of the house to 3 bars... Running a Cisco router at home at the moment, if you don't want to pay retail, check ebay.
You are forgetting systemd and pulseaudio, which also introduces compatibility issues for everyone else as well, when desktop environments start requiring it.
... which is about 25 years behind the rest of the world in most things, i have had native IPv6 for a year now, and could have had it much earlier if i switched to my current ISP (internode) earlier.
Took me about 1 hour to upgrade my Mac from 10.7 to 10.8, and everything including my apps stayed working as before. Just sayin'. 3 hours would have been enough to take me from Leopard to Mountain Lion over the years.
As per above, some of the blame is no doubt VLC, maybe some of it is Linux in general not providing a standard way for apps to browse network shares. Who knows? As an end user, i don't know or care.
I'm not saying OS X or Windows are perfect either, but inability to access files over a network share from one of the default installed apps is a bit.... poor to say the least.
As a basic example of what I mean, just last week. Mint-Cinnamon edition (downloaded a few weeks ago). Browse a network share, try and drag a file into the pre-shipped VLC media player. Doesn't work. I can navigate to the share, i can browser the share and pick the file up. But can't drag it to VLC or VLC's playlist window. Works on Windows, Works on Mac.
Ok, so i'll try and open the file from the network share within VLC's file browser dialog. Nope, can't browse to the network share I have open in the file manager application.
So you mean to play this media file i need to change to a different app, or manually copy it from the network share to my machine before i can play it? Give me a break.
If VLC can't do stuff like that (and yes, the problem is probably partially VLC, and partially Linux having no standard API for doing this that works cross-distribution), then don't ship it by default as part of the OS? I shouldn't be running into these issues with default-installed apps.
Sure, Cinnamon looks pretty, but the workflow that works on every other mainstream OS, is broken.
Yea, don't make it so end users will use it. Make it so only geeks can use it
The desktop UI itself has been usable by end users for a decade or so now. The UI paradigm is not broken. In fact, KDE 2.x and 3.x had advantages, UI wise over Windows or OS X in terms of getting stuff done - yet were still simple enough for any end user to navigate..
What Linux distributions / desktop environments are currently doing is TAKING AWAY those few advantages Linux had, that made up for the cluster-fuck that used to be hardware support and consistent UI feel between apps, etc, dumbing it down and NOT FIXING the core problems that were counterbalanced by the additional UI flexibility Linux used to have.
The difference is that apple do the engineering to make things work properly underneath. The UI chrome is not the point of running a Mac, and copying that wholesale (just look at the Mint-Cinnamon control panel for example, or the unity application launcher or the window min/max/close widgets, or the file dialog) without doing the engineering in the back-end to get the mac level or UI consistency and integration between application and OS is missing the point.
The Mac works well DESPITE it's UI, not because of it. Copying the least impressive (but visible) aspect of OS X and ignoring the real issues is just going to end in disaster.
Making ia mistake and discovering so whilst testing it is one thing. To ignore the problem / rely soley on sock-puppets who will not give any constructive criticism and then releasing it is another.
You missed an entire paragraph written just for you:
"But I'm not a programer!" Okay, so translate the documentation into your native language, or help out on the forums, or maybe even consider feeding the programmers lunch while they work with a $20 donation. Otherwise, you're bitching about a gift.
My time is worth $55/hr. Rather than wasting it translating an app into a foreign language that doesn't do what I want it to do anyway, I could just pay a couple of hours worth of my time to get something I want.
By default, the OS X install will keep all your documents and applications from your previous install. To wipe a recent copy of OS X out, you need manually to drop into the menu (rather than being presented with a choice to make in the main installer screen) and re-format your partition.. Previous versions (10.5/10.6 - haven't used previous - and it's been abuot 4 years since I reinstalled an OS that old) asked a very unambiguous question - i forget the exact phrasing but it was along the lines of "Do you want to keep your data and applications?" followed by a very clear confirmation if the user selected "No, clean install" along the lines of "You will lose all of your data, are you sure?"
As to the time machine issue - If you give any operating system a disk that is of an unknown format, and it asks you if you want to reformat and use for back up, it will wipe your data.
The only "poor ui choices" on the desktop are both optional and very much not-so-poor if used with a trackpad. I've actually been using launchpad with my trackpad as it is more efficient than exitiing full-screen to get to the dock. Just 4 finger pinch, optionally type or click app.
I'm quite pleased with the direction the UI has taken as of late - I've used everything from Windows 3.1 through 7, fvwm, amiwm, wmaker, kde, gnome, etc. in the past.
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Unless you're auditing said sources, you're no better off than installing binaries.
A mate here is selling a first generation i7 motherboard, cpu and RAM for 150 bucks. No, not new, but the kti you're replacing isn't new either.
.... take that money you spend on the GPU, and spend it on a motherboard with i7 and integrated GPU, and you'll likely get a speed up as well. with faster processing for everything else.
It means that systems without pulsaudio, that you know... do mixing in the kernel properly run into issues with software that requires pulse.
Systemd is a re-write of launchd (breaking compatibility with launchd) just because lennart doesn't like the more open license of launchd.
For those playing at home, Fedora is the straight-jacket...
Well... netgear is "ok", but for example the last router/ap from netgear I replaced with an airport extreme. I went frm having barely any signal at the other end of the house to 3 bars... Running a Cisco router at home at the moment, if you don't want to pay retail, check ebay.
You are forgetting systemd and pulseaudio, which also introduces compatibility issues for everyone else as well, when desktop environments start requiring it.
Your ISP is lazy. I have native dual stack at home and it just works. Zero issues, and it is enabled by default for all customers.
... which is about 25 years behind the rest of the world in most things, i have had native IPv6 for a year now, and could have had it much earlier if i switched to my current ISP (internode) earlier.
Took me about 1 hour to upgrade my Mac from 10.7 to 10.8, and everything including my apps stayed working as before. Just sayin'. 3 hours would have been enough to take me from Leopard to Mountain Lion over the years.
Selection is similar to the choice of "Would sir like a straightjacket or a frontal lobotomy?"
Why bother indeed, when the BSD userland is more unix-defacto-standards compliant, and often faster. Like sed, for example which runs >2x faster than the GNU version. ref: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-January/061084.html
... Alan has given up his job and Linux hacking for the time being for "family reasons" according to his profile on G+
Clearly you weren't around for Redhat 5.0, with the libc5->glibc fuckup.
Haven't run into it, but I'm sure they'll figure it out. It isn't an insurmountable problem.
As per above, some of the blame is no doubt VLC, maybe some of it is Linux in general not providing a standard way for apps to browse network shares. Who knows? As an end user, i don't know or care.
I'm not saying OS X or Windows are perfect either, but inability to access files over a network share from one of the default installed apps is a bit.... poor to say the least.
As a basic example of what I mean, just last week. Mint-Cinnamon edition (downloaded a few weeks ago). Browse a network share, try and drag a file into the pre-shipped VLC media player. Doesn't work. I can navigate to the share, i can browser the share and pick the file up. But can't drag it to VLC or VLC's playlist window. Works on Windows, Works on Mac.
Ok, so i'll try and open the file from the network share within VLC's file browser dialog. Nope, can't browse to the network share I have open in the file manager application.
So you mean to play this media file i need to change to a different app, or manually copy it from the network share to my machine before i can play it? Give me a break.
If VLC can't do stuff like that (and yes, the problem is probably partially VLC, and partially Linux having no standard API for doing this that works cross-distribution), then don't ship it by default as part of the OS? I shouldn't be running into these issues with default-installed apps.
Sure, Cinnamon looks pretty, but the workflow that works on every other mainstream OS, is broken.
The desktop UI itself has been usable by end users for a decade or so now. The UI paradigm is not broken. In fact, KDE 2.x and 3.x had advantages, UI wise over Windows or OS X in terms of getting stuff done - yet were still simple enough for any end user to navigate..
What Linux distributions / desktop environments are currently doing is TAKING AWAY those few advantages Linux had, that made up for the cluster-fuck that used to be hardware support and consistent UI feel between apps, etc, dumbing it down and NOT FIXING the core problems that were counterbalanced by the additional UI flexibility Linux used to have.
The difference is that apple do the engineering to make things work properly underneath. The UI chrome is not the point of running a Mac, and copying that wholesale (just look at the Mint-Cinnamon control panel for example, or the unity application launcher or the window min/max/close widgets, or the file dialog) without doing the engineering in the back-end to get the mac level or UI consistency and integration between application and OS is missing the point.
The Mac works well DESPITE it's UI, not because of it. Copying the least impressive (but visible) aspect of OS X and ignoring the real issues is just going to end in disaster.
Use FreeBSD or PC-BSD. Lennart writes stuff that doesn't work on these, and the license precludes them being desirable, also.
Making ia mistake and discovering so whilst testing it is one thing. To ignore the problem / rely soley on sock-puppets who will not give any constructive criticism and then releasing it is another.
Millions of business users disagree with you. It's about the apps, and for business, Windows has them.
My time is worth $55/hr. Rather than wasting it translating an app into a foreign language that doesn't do what I want it to do anyway, I could just pay a couple of hours worth of my time to get something I want.
By default, the OS X install will keep all your documents and applications from your previous install. To wipe a recent copy of OS X out, you need manually to drop into the menu (rather than being presented with a choice to make in the main installer screen) and re-format your partition.. Previous versions (10.5/10.6 - haven't used previous - and it's been abuot 4 years since I reinstalled an OS that old) asked a very unambiguous question - i forget the exact phrasing but it was along the lines of "Do you want to keep your data and applications?" followed by a very clear confirmation if the user selected "No, clean install" along the lines of "You will lose all of your data, are you sure?"
As to the time machine issue - If you give any operating system a disk that is of an unknown format, and it asks you if you want to reformat and use for back up, it will wipe your data.
You mean, click spotlight or 4 finger pinch into launchpad, type start of app name and hit enter?
The only "poor ui choices" on the desktop are both optional and very much not-so-poor if used with a trackpad. I've actually been using launchpad with my trackpad as it is more efficient than exitiing full-screen to get to the dock. Just 4 finger pinch, optionally type or click app.
I'm quite pleased with the direction the UI has taken as of late - I've used everything from Windows 3.1 through 7, fvwm, amiwm, wmaker, kde, gnome, etc. in the past.