I forgot h) Mission control has dropped the ability to rearrange the spaces, you cannot move windows anymore from non active spaces to non active spaces, definitely a downgrade from the old spaces system i) Launcher does not have a full text search (even the ipad launcher has), so using it is absolutely pointless once you have more than 10 programs. j) Annoying auto correction, while the auto correction is fine for a tablet or a phone, on a real computer it really is just annoying, I instantly turned it off it is not funny if you type 10 times val in your ide and the osx auto correction corrects it to value without prewarning k) Annoying window animations, I hated them on Linux i hate them even more on osx but you can at least turn them off and revert to the old way
Actually there is one thing in Lion which I really like, that is the local time machine snapshots, they are like a second saftey net. But there are many things I dislike a) New icon color scheme obviously designed by a blind person destroying the usability in finder. In other words the new icons feel like if someone uses a user interface and smashes it on the table when it still was a baby.
b) Problematic save and versioning scheme which is literally dangerous (could be fixed easily but apple probably will not fix it) The problem there is you do not have full control over when a document is saved and to the worse you cannot see which versions are stable (aka saved by you), so in the worst case you accidentally drop in a mistake and then close the program wham the mistake is in the document without you noticing it, once you recognize the document is faulty you have a hard time to determine which one was the last stable version. The cure for apple seems to be to lock the unused documents after a certain period. So all mistakes of RCS VSS etc... are repeated while others have done the versioning on local level for 10 years without destroying the users workflow (aka version only on save) To the worse all of this has no off switch whatsoever.
c) Autolocking of files, to semi fix b (which it does not, and causes problems for people who work with lots of files simultaneously. The period for auto locking still is not on, but I think we will see lots of complaints in about 2-4 weeks where they suddenly got a load of files autolocked.
d) Replacing save as in auto saved files with clone and save
e) While I applaud local time machine, why are the files still fully present once synced to another time machine, this sucks up hd space f) Rosetta, while not an issue for me, there are many users who really still miss it g) Deletion of the installer after the install without any warning, there are some users who would like to burn it onto cd or a mem stick, because 4.3 gig takes ages to download for them
Apple never responds to problems quickly. If they respond it takes them usually half a year or a class action lawsuit. Sometimes they will never fix issues. The first Macbook Air generation had a serial fault of overheating hardware. Apples response
a) First ignore the issue b) Say it is not designed for serious use (well web surfing also caused the overheating) c) Roll out a software fix which did not fix the issue but did something it introduced a kernel task which stalled the machine once it becomes too hot (which always happened) d) Silently roll out a bugfix release half a year later e) Leave your existing first generation customers hanging in the air once you have sacked in the 2500 USD the machines cost back then
If Apple ever deserved a class action lawsuit for one thing, than it is the first gen macbook air, unfortunately they never got one on their necks, while the support forums had threads with thousands of posts all about the same problem!
Actually it is not only criticism about faulty drivers, Apple also locks people out of the App store comment section if they post valid criticism regarding the auto save which causes problems for people and is not turn offable. There are reports in the support forums that people were locked out of the comment section because they posted a thorough review showing the good things and the bad things. But even having a valid review in the app store seems to be too much for Apple.
Btw. sidequestion, why has the enterprise moved away from Postgres to MySQL? I have yet to see a case where people once they learned it were unhappy with Postgres that thing is a bugfree workhorse. The enterprise which moved away from oracle to postgres was a public health insurance company btw...
Actually for their time there were two desktop environments where I really had the feeling they go tit right. OS/2 Warp back then was perfect for its time. It probably would not work out anymore today, but I think back then it was the best there was and felt simply right.
Snow Leopard so far to me has been the summit of perfect UI design. It felt about 90% right to me. On the OSX Side Lion usabilitywise was a huge step backwards.
On Linux I think KDE 3.x and Gnome 2.x were about 80% right. KDE 4 still is around 80%, some things have improved while others got worse so it stands at the same level for me as 3.x used to stand, but I personally think that the auto fading widget controls are annoying, I want a desktop which is there for usage but does not remind me all the time that it is there.
The dealbreaker for me in Gnome 2 was always nautilus, from a power user point of view it always lacked compared to the kde counterparts and also lacked compared to the really old nautilus.
I always have a problem with changing workflows if they change for the worse. The terminal example you brought is the perfect example. Before it was one keystroke on two keys now you have what, three steps? If you encounter something like that for one thing it is annoying, if you have a stack of such annoyances then small things sum up to a huge problem and a bad user experience.
OSX Lion with its user interface changes is the prime example. Snow Leopard was so perfect that only minor changes and maybe a decent versioning was needed. What they did was to shoehorn their ideas of versioning (which have been proven faulty 20 years ago) their idea of whatever into without listening to the users, sounds familiar?
So you have lots of small problems a) Icons designed by color blinds which destroy the usability on finder just for the sake of giving the document more (what documents in finder? - The navigation is the document) b) A launcher which has forgotten on how to full text search between hundreds of icons c) Mission control which has lost the ability to rearrange desktops or drag the programs from one of the non active desktops to the other d) Versioning which follows a broken versioning workflow (broken in a way that pretty much all versioning systems acknowledged that it did not work out), to fix it they added auto locking of documents, a thank you to Apple from people who have to work on hundreds of files. e) Non turn offable autosave just because save seems to be somewhere seen as to complicated. Save as was replaced by clone and save, again a vital workflow two commands instead of one. Thanks to autosave you might throw errors into documents well you now have versioning, but no control when a version is saved and no warning, except for save which explicitly saves a version. Problem is you cannot distinquish between which versions are stable and which are auto saved, the UI just lets you revert to the last saved version.
Etc...
None of this is really a deal breaker, but in summary all of those small issues stack up to a big pile of shit you sit on top. I assume the issues with Gnome 3 are very similar although even worse. People do not have a problem with adaption if they really get a benefit from it, but making 10 things worse just to get one thing really right is the wrong way to do things. For me the deal breaker was simply that they got rid of the desktop metaphor just for the sake of getting a semantic desktop. If I would wanted that i probably would have extended Eclipse via plugins to a full desktop environment.
The problem there is if most people are unhappy with the UI no matter how good the UI designer thinks the UI is then, the UI designer is at fault and not vice versa. There are always people who are unhappy with a change, but I think Linux there is in the majority.
You brought the issue down to the point. Gnome 2 was a huge backstap for power users, thanks to the braindead nautilus redesign. Gnome 3, is user interface nazi design from hell. KDE4 was in that position pre 4.5, 4.6, i still have one or two areas which i hate but overall the experience has improved. The problem with such redesigns is that you basically shit your users onto the head and face it there is no dummy linux users never will be in the kde and gnome environment and even then you cannot go for an entirely different metaphor because especially the dummy users have learned one desktop environment and shun changes unless they come from Microsoft. I am not sure what crowd Gnome 3 wants to please, probably the 3 senior citizens who have not seen a computer yet.
But this change for change sake and trying to shoehorn tablet and whatever ui metaphors in desktops seems to be the trend. The changes to OSX Lion from the UI side so far have been catastrophic (Apple censors most critics in the app store, but the support forums show a clear picture that people hate the new ui elements and auto save). Windows 8 seems also to head into the UI from hell direction from what the first images and videos have shown.
Problem with this is simply that you cannot shoehorn a classical ui into a tablet, you have to design an entirely different ui for that. Apple for a time basically got it, now they seem to lose it. The latest changes in Lion coming from iOS are catastrophic from a usability point of view. While I applaud Gnome 3 for trying to go with a semantic desktop metaphor, this works pretty well in Eclipse, I cannot applaud them for doing what they did, they simply overdid it and did not listen to anyone. For me the deal breaker was that they got rid of the desktop metaphor entirely. If I want to use a window manager then I definitely would not go with gnome 3. The deal breaker on the KDE4 side for me is the constant auto popping of the desktop widget controls. If there was a buttom which fixes them for good so that I do not have to see them on every hover I would be sold over again. Outside of that KDE 4 has become pretty good, while Gnome has gone the UI Nazi out of hell way. Even gnome 2 was a huge backstap with their Nautilus functionality wise, but the rest was ok, Gnome 3 oh well, if you take a desktop out of a desktop environment then you have a window manager with the bloat of a desktop environment in ram.
He has a point. Every user interface design seems to be so fixated to press the desktop into a netbook/tablet interface that they ruin the desktop experience for the rest of us which still is about 99% of the userbase. Just have a look at the latest changes to OSX in Lion, they are a huge mess. Beginning from a trimmed down multi desktop system which has lost vital functionality ending with an unusable auto/save versioning just for the sake of it which destroys the users workflows and works, and in between basic commands like save as which do not exist anymore but take twice as long with the new command sets, vital menus which are hidden in the title of the window just not to confuse the user (but you still need them)
Gnome 3 also took a lesson from this ui out of hell book everyone seems to be reading nowadays. Change for change sake, getting rid of the desktop instead of just allowing a semantic one. It is not like a load of people use the desktop for shortcuts stashes etc... Pointless changes just for the sake of change actions which now take twice as long and Apples our it is MyWay or the highway attitude (Apple censors or bans users in the App store which bring in valid criticism to the bad changes in lion, Gnome just ignores the criticism and sets them to invalid)
Problem is this seems to be the trend, OSX also goes into this directions, basic tasks like save as now take twice as long and its new multi desktop system is a mess compared to the older one because they left out vital functions. Seems to be the trend nowadays to reduce usability by trying to be an uber nanny.
It really depends on the write cycles, the problem there is that you have about 3000 write cycles on a modern consumer grade ssd, combine that with the fact that most people buy really small ones to save some bucks and they start to use it heavily by swapping on them etc... and you have a situation where you very likely can reach those 3000s within a year or two. If you use them in a sane manner and have a decent size so that wear levelling can do its magic you should not hit that limit within the lifespan of the computer itself. But that is just consumer grade ssds, enterprise grade ssds are an entirely different game.
Didnt Clinton default as well. I can remember a period of 2-3 weeks when the Clinton administration could not pay its bills because of the congress pickering.
Problem is if you gutter down your country the next president will have a problem on his hands, my persona guess is Obama will lose the election (he probably knows it and has given up already). And the next president will have to raise the taxes significantly otherwise the country will go down the gutters. The USA has one huge advantage compared to countries like Greece, they have a very low tax rate and a lot of room to increase them.
Nintendo, is the iOS devices. Before iOS you did not really have a choice except for going for Nintendo. Now on iOS despite the fact that there are no analog sticks etc... what you have is devices in the same pricerange and games starting around 50 cents and maxing at 10USD. So as a parent it is clear on what to buy for the kids, definitely not a mobile console, where they can lose the cartridges with 45 USD each. Before apples unplanned success in the gaming area (to some degree Apple still is not getting it that the games drive their sales big time, otherwise they would already would have opened the devices for gamepad like control options), Nintendo could always rely on their handhelds to carry them along no matter what desaster they had ahead in their normal console area. This safety net now is gone, and Nintendo slowly is realizing it (hence the rants last year)
Actually not really. HG was written in python which runs basically within an interpreter which also hosts a stack of unix derived libs. Git currently is running on windows in MSysGit which is native but also drags in a bunch of unix Libraries. So not too much of a difference here. Outside of that, a pure Java port of git is in the works, which will be or is utilized by Eclipse.
Even as a non english speaker, I must say, don't name your filenames outside of the usual ascii range. I have yet to encounter a software project where this is handled otherwise. If you drop the average users in things become different though, but those cannot cope with git anyway.
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I forgot
h) Mission control has dropped the ability to rearrange the spaces, you cannot move windows anymore from non active spaces to non active spaces, definitely a downgrade from the old spaces system
i) Launcher does not have a full text search (even the ipad launcher has), so using it is absolutely pointless once you have more than 10 programs.
j) Annoying auto correction, while the auto correction is fine for a tablet or a phone, on a real computer it really is just annoying, I instantly turned it off it is not funny if you type 10 times val in your ide and the osx auto correction corrects it to value without prewarning
k) Annoying window animations, I hated them on Linux i hate them even more on osx but you can at least turn them off and revert to the old way
Actually there is one thing in Lion which I really like, that is the local time machine snapshots, they are like a second saftey net.
But there are many things I dislike
a) New icon color scheme obviously designed by a blind person destroying the usability in finder. In other words the new icons feel like
if someone uses a user interface and smashes it on the table when it still was a baby.
b) Problematic save and versioning scheme which is literally dangerous (could be fixed easily but apple probably will not fix it)
The problem there is you do not have full control over when a document is saved and to the worse you cannot see which versions are stable
(aka saved by you), so in the worst case you accidentally drop in a mistake and then close the program wham the mistake is in the document without you noticing it, once you recognize the document is faulty you have a hard time to determine which one was the last stable version.
The cure for apple seems to be to lock the unused documents after a certain period.
So all mistakes of RCS VSS etc... are repeated while others have done the versioning on local level for 10 years without destroying the users workflow (aka version only on save)
To the worse all of this has no off switch whatsoever.
c) Autolocking of files, to semi fix b (which it does not, and causes problems for people who work with lots of files simultaneously.
The period for auto locking still is not on, but I think we will see lots of complaints in about 2-4 weeks where they suddenly got a load
of files autolocked.
d) Replacing save as in auto saved files with clone and save
e) While I applaud local time machine, why are the files still fully present once synced to another time machine, this sucks up hd space
f) Rosetta, while not an issue for me, there are many users who really still miss it
g) Deletion of the installer after the install without any warning, there are some users who would like to burn it onto cd or a mem stick, because
4.3 gig takes ages to download for them
Apple never responds to problems quickly. If they respond it takes them usually half a year or a class action lawsuit. Sometimes they will never fix issues. The first Macbook Air generation had a serial fault of overheating hardware.
Apples response
a) First ignore the issue
b) Say it is not designed for serious use (well web surfing also caused the overheating)
c) Roll out a software fix which did not fix the issue but did something it introduced a kernel task which stalled the machine once it becomes too hot (which always happened)
d) Silently roll out a bugfix release half a year later
e) Leave your existing first generation customers hanging in the air once you have sacked in the 2500 USD the machines cost back then
If Apple ever deserved a class action lawsuit for one thing, than it is the first gen macbook air, unfortunately they never got one on their necks, while the support forums had threads with thousands of posts all about the same problem!
Actually it is not only criticism about faulty drivers, Apple also locks people out of the App store comment section if they post valid criticism regarding the auto save which causes problems for people and is not turn offable.
There are reports in the support forums that people were locked out of the comment section because they posted a thorough review showing the good things and the bad things. But even having a valid review in the app store seems to be too much for Apple.
Ah ok thx, I knew there was something, I am nowadays so seldomly in Linux that I did not bother to look further.
Btw. sidequestion, why has the enterprise moved away from Postgres to MySQL? I have yet to see a case where people once they learned it were unhappy with Postgres that thing is a bugfree workhorse. The enterprise which moved away from oracle to postgres was a public health insurance company btw...
Actually for their time there were two desktop environments where I really had the feeling they go tit right.
OS/2 Warp back then was perfect for its time. It probably would not work out anymore today, but I think back then it was the best there was and felt simply right.
Snow Leopard so far to me has been the summit of perfect UI design. It felt about 90% right to me.
On the OSX Side Lion usabilitywise was a huge step backwards.
On Linux I think KDE 3.x and Gnome 2.x were about 80% right. KDE 4 still is around 80%, some things have improved while others got worse so it stands at the same level for me as 3.x used to stand, but I personally think that the auto fading widget controls are annoying, I want a desktop which is there for usage but does not remind me all the time that it is there.
The dealbreaker for me in Gnome 2 was always nautilus, from a power user point of view it always lacked compared to the kde counterparts and also lacked compared to the really old nautilus.
I always have a problem with changing workflows if they change for the worse. The terminal example you brought is the perfect example. Before it was one keystroke on two keys now you have what, three steps? If you encounter something like that for one thing it is annoying, if you have a stack of such annoyances then small things sum up to a huge problem and a bad user experience.
OSX Lion with its user interface changes is the prime example.
Snow Leopard was so perfect that only minor changes and maybe a decent versioning was needed. What they did was to shoehorn their ideas of versioning (which have been proven faulty 20 years ago) their idea of whatever into without listening to the users, sounds familiar?
So you have lots of small problems
a) Icons designed by color blinds which destroy the usability on finder just for the sake of giving the document more (what documents in finder? - The navigation is the document)
b) A launcher which has forgotten on how to full text search between hundreds of icons
c) Mission control which has lost the ability to rearrange desktops or drag the programs from one of the non active desktops to the other
d) Versioning which follows a broken versioning workflow (broken in a way that pretty much all versioning systems acknowledged that it did not work out), to fix it they added auto locking of documents, a thank you to Apple from people who have to work on hundreds of files.
e) Non turn offable autosave just because save seems to be somewhere seen as to complicated. Save as was replaced by clone and save, again a vital workflow two commands instead of one.
Thanks to autosave you might throw errors into documents well you now have versioning, but no control when a version is saved and no warning, except for save which explicitly saves a version. Problem is you cannot distinquish between which versions are stable and which are auto saved, the UI just lets you revert to the last saved version.
Etc...
None of this is really a deal breaker, but in summary all of those small issues stack up to a big pile of shit you sit on top. I assume the issues with Gnome 3 are very similar although even worse. People do not have a problem with adaption if they really get a benefit from it, but making 10 things worse just to get one thing really right is the wrong way to do things.
For me the deal breaker was simply that they got rid of the desktop metaphor just for the sake of getting a semantic desktop. If I would wanted that i probably would have extended Eclipse via plugins to a full desktop environment.
The problem there is if most people are unhappy with the UI no matter how good the UI designer thinks the UI is then, the UI designer is at fault and not vice versa. There are always people who are unhappy with a change, but I think Linux there is in the majority.
You brought the issue down to the point. Gnome 2 was a huge backstap for power users, thanks to the braindead nautilus redesign. Gnome 3, is user interface nazi design from hell. KDE4 was in that position pre 4.5, 4.6, i still have one or two areas which i hate but overall the experience has improved.
The problem with such redesigns is that you basically shit your users onto the head and face it there is no dummy linux users never will be in the kde and gnome environment and even then you cannot go for an entirely different metaphor because especially the dummy users have learned one desktop environment and shun changes unless they come from Microsoft.
I am not sure what crowd Gnome 3 wants to please, probably the 3 senior citizens who have not seen a computer yet.
But this change for change sake and trying to shoehorn tablet and whatever ui metaphors in desktops seems to be the trend.
The changes to OSX Lion from the UI side so far have been catastrophic (Apple censors most critics in the app store, but the support forums show a clear picture that people hate the new ui elements and auto save). Windows 8 seems also to head into the UI from hell direction from what the first images and videos have shown.
Problem with this is simply that you cannot shoehorn a classical ui into a tablet, you have to design an entirely different ui for that. Apple for a time basically got it, now they seem to lose it. The latest changes in Lion coming from iOS are catastrophic from a usability point of view.
While I applaud Gnome 3 for trying to go with a semantic desktop metaphor, this works pretty well in Eclipse, I cannot applaud them for doing what they did, they simply overdid it and did not listen to anyone. For me the deal breaker was that they got rid of the desktop metaphor entirely. If I want to use a window manager then I definitely would not go with gnome 3.
The deal breaker on the KDE4 side for me is the constant auto popping of the desktop widget controls. If there was a buttom which fixes them for good so that I do not have to see them on every hover I would be sold over again. Outside of that KDE 4 has become pretty good, while Gnome has gone the UI Nazi out of hell way. Even gnome 2 was a huge backstap with their Nautilus functionality wise, but the rest was ok, Gnome 3 oh well, if you take a desktop out of a desktop environment then you have a window manager with the bloat of a desktop environment in ram.
He has a point. Every user interface design seems to be so fixated to press the desktop into a netbook/tablet interface that they ruin the desktop experience for the rest of us which still is about 99% of the userbase.
Just have a look at the latest changes to OSX in Lion, they are a huge mess. Beginning from a trimmed down multi desktop system which has lost vital functionality ending with an unusable auto/save versioning just for the sake of it which destroys the users workflows and works, and in between basic commands like save as which do not exist anymore but take twice as long with the new command sets, vital menus which are hidden in the title of the window just not to confuse the user (but you still need them)
Gnome 3 also took a lesson from this ui out of hell book everyone seems to be reading nowadays. Change for change sake, getting rid of the desktop instead of just allowing a semantic one. It is not like a load of people use the desktop for shortcuts stashes etc...
Pointless changes just for the sake of change actions which now take twice as long and Apples our it is MyWay or the highway attitude (Apple censors or bans users in the App store which bring in valid criticism to the bad changes in lion, Gnome just ignores the criticism and sets them to invalid)
Problem is this seems to be the trend, OSX also goes into this directions, basic tasks like save as now take twice as long and its new multi desktop system is a mess compared to the older one because they left out vital functions.
Seems to be the trend nowadays to reduce usability by trying to be an uber nanny.
YMMV I have seen enterprises migrating from Oracle to postgres successfully due to cost reasons, and they were pretty happy afterwards with it.
Actually I have used both, Parallels and VMWare fusion are pretty much up to par. Not to much difference between the two.
I rather doubt ip is the problem, more along the lines that postgres is the db with the higher quality and really enterprise ready.
I am using the OSX version of VMWare, and believe me it is easier to use than VBox.
VMWare Fusion that is.
It really depends on the write cycles, the problem there is that you have about 3000 write cycles on a modern consumer grade ssd, combine that with the fact that most people buy really small ones to save some bucks and they start to use it heavily by swapping on them etc... and you have a situation where you very likely can reach those 3000s within a year or two.
If you use them in a sane manner and have a decent size so that wear levelling can do its magic you should not hit that limit within the lifespan of the computer itself.
But that is just consumer grade ssds, enterprise grade ssds are an entirely different game.
Didnt Clinton default as well. I can remember a period of 2-3 weeks when the Clinton administration could not pay its bills because of the congress pickering.
Problem is if you gutter down your country the next president will have a problem on his hands, my persona guess is Obama will lose the election (he probably knows it and has given up already). And the next president will have to raise the taxes significantly otherwise the country will go down the gutters.
The USA has one huge advantage compared to countries like Greece, they have a very low tax rate and a lot of room to increase them.
Nintendo, is the iOS devices.
Before iOS you did not really have a choice except for going for Nintendo. Now on iOS despite the fact that there are no analog sticks etc... what you have is devices in the same pricerange and games starting around 50 cents and maxing at 10USD.
So as a parent it is clear on what to buy for the kids, definitely not a mobile console, where they can lose the cartridges with 45 USD each.
Before apples unplanned success in the gaming area (to some degree Apple still is not getting it that the games drive their sales big time, otherwise they would already would have opened the devices for gamepad like control options), Nintendo could always rely on their handhelds to carry them along no matter what desaster they had ahead in their normal console area.
This safety net now is gone, and Nintendo slowly is realizing it (hence the rants last year)
The store room in the building where Fox News is located.
I simply wont buy their stuff then...
Actually not really. HG was written in python which runs basically within an interpreter which also hosts a stack of unix derived libs.
Git currently is running on windows in MSysGit which is native but also drags in a bunch of unix Libraries.
So not too much of a difference here.
Outside of that, a pure Java port of git is in the works, which will be or is utilized by Eclipse.
Even as a non english speaker, I must say, don't name your filenames outside of the usual ascii range. I have yet to encounter a software project where this is handled otherwise.
If you drop the average users in things become different though, but those cannot cope with git anyway.