"To say that a GUI makes you more productive is flat out wrong!"
This is a demonstrateable falsehood.
Users can generally accomplish the same task much faster using a GUI based operating system than in a text based operating system. And, furthermore, the MacOS is the most efficient/productive of the bunch. Apple did serious significant research in developing the MacOS and it has paid off.
This is not an opinion, but is demonstrable fact. If you are interested in Human Computer Interaction, you should join the ACM-CHI. Or, read one of a dozen books on the subject such as "Tog on Interface".
Billions of dollars have been wasted in the US alone since 1990 paying employees to spend that extra 5 seconds to find thet menu on the window, rather than where the menu belongs- at the top of the screen. Further billions have been wasted, in people using the second (or heaven's forbid!) third mouse button when they meant to use the first. It slows people down.
Check out any substantial work on this subject and you will find this is true.
...nothing could be worse for Linux than "hordes of windows programmers". I've spent 10 years developing on Unix, Mac but mostly Windows. While there are a good programmers in the windows world, the only reasonable definition of "windows programmer" -- a very general term-- is the average guy with 2 years of Win95 experience flooding employment agencies. Let me tell you- these people can't program. Their idea of development is to instantiate the appropriate MFC (or god forbid VB controls) classes and link them together iwth a few lines of code. If you ask them to implement functionality not already in MFC (or VB) or easily derived from them, then it takes them forever. If you ask them to name two situations in which you don't want to use an object, they can't name any (and there are lots, even C++ lovers concede it.) I don't know what educational institutions are churning these guys out, but I am continually shocked at how quickly the average "Windows programmer" skillset has dropped over the years.
However, in contrast the people I've met from the Linux community are unusually clued in about technology and good programming practices (though, I have to concede my opinion might change after I start digging thru the kernel) -- and though it seems like a young crowd, somebody taught you guys right!
So, on the contrary-- I think Linux is the only avenue to bring legitimacy to the Windows programmer crowd! The profession of programmer is getting a bad rep with the dilution of quality, and the MSCE (Microsoft Seems to Certify Everyone) attitude these days has me feeling nauseous.
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If the poster is "Anonymous Coward" its Fantasy. Don't believe it.
IF the poster uses a real login name, then evalutate it seriously.
Anyone who thinks a pentium is anywhere near as fast as a PowerPC is an Anonymous Coward.
Noticed the trend?
Grow up dipthongs!
"To say that a GUI makes you more productive is flat out wrong!"
This is a demonstrateable falsehood.
Users can generally accomplish the same task much faster using a GUI based operating system than in a text based operating system. And, furthermore, the MacOS is the most efficient/productive of the bunch. Apple did serious significant research in developing the MacOS and it has paid off.
This is not an opinion, but is demonstrable fact. If you are interested in Human Computer Interaction, you should join the ACM-CHI. Or, read one of a dozen books on the subject such as "Tog on Interface".
Billions of dollars have been wasted in the US alone since 1990 paying employees to spend that extra 5 seconds to find thet menu on the window, rather than where the menu belongs- at the top of the screen. Further billions have been wasted, in people using the second (or heaven's forbid!) third mouse button when they meant to use the first. It slows people down.
Check out any substantial work on this subject and you will find this is true.
"PowerMacs have 3rd rate I/O compared to PC's"
What are you jealous? Lets see,
FireWire vs. Parallel port
SCSI vs. IDE
NuBus vs. ISA
ADB vs. PS/2
PCI (64bit) vs. PCI (32bit)
USB vs. USB
See a trend there?
Macs have had better I/O since they decided to go with SCSI... which was, oh, 1985.
Course, the processor is twice as fast, the I/O architecture (local bus to you) is twice as fast, etc. etc.
Not surprising that you're an Anonymous Coward.
...nothing could be worse for Linux than "hordes of windows programmers". I've spent 10 years developing on Unix, Mac but mostly Windows. While there are a good programmers in the windows world, the only reasonable definition of "windows programmer" -- a very general term-- is the average guy with 2 years of Win95 experience flooding employment agencies. Let me tell you- these people can't program. Their idea of development is to instantiate the appropriate MFC (or god forbid VB controls) classes and link them together iwth a few lines of code. If you ask them to implement functionality not already in MFC (or VB) or easily derived from them, then it takes them forever. If you ask them to name two situations in which you don't want to use an object, they can't name any (and there are lots, even C++ lovers concede it.) I don't know what educational institutions are churning these guys out, but I am continually shocked at how quickly the average "Windows programmer" skillset has dropped over the years.
However, in contrast the people I've met from the Linux community are unusually clued in about technology and good programming practices (though, I have to concede my opinion might change after I start digging thru the kernel) -- and though it seems like a young crowd, somebody taught you guys right!
So, on the contrary-- I think Linux is the only avenue to bring legitimacy to the Windows programmer crowd! The profession of programmer is getting a bad rep with the dilution of quality, and the MSCE (Microsoft Seems to Certify Everyone) attitude these days has me feeling nauseous.
Jay