( I'll bite).
always strikes me as funny when Linux people whine about the lack of a Linux distribution that works like OS X. Hmmm, maybe that's because Apple pays developers market wage to create their interface, rather than relying on community contributions by random, unaccountable people? Also, it seems that the Enlightenment WM is really supposed to mimmic OS X, (...)
Have you ever used Enlightenment ( probably not )? It is nothing like OSX. The closest you could reasonably come to your statement is to point out the existence of a OSX skin.
Also, Enlightenment predates OSX by quite a bit, so it would be hard for it to be designed as an OSX clone.
Then again, that's the problem with the Linux community. Instead of contributing towards a common project and common goals, everyone goes off and totally duplicates the effort of everyone else. You end up with dozens of WMs, dozens of text editors, dozens of e-mail clients, a dozen web browsers, hundreds of OSs (that's what a distro is, after all) and not ONE of them approaches the quality of a commercial OS.
There are ( surprise) dozens of email clients, text editors et al. for most OSes.
I think you'll find a large number of these programs are not linux-exclusive. vi and emacs can be found on almost any nix system, for example. Including several commercial ones.
Now counting a distro as a full OS is pushing it quite a bit, but even so, there are commercial distros - by your definition RedHat and SuSE don't approach their own quality.
An CD or DVD drive, or even a USB keyfob will do that quite nicely.
With the added advantage of not being astronomically prone to failures.
And they'll be faster.
And they have more space.
There is one reason to have a floppy drive - it's simply that a lot of older systems without CD/R drives or USB can only write to that media, but that is by definition a shrinking need.
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( I'll bite). always strikes me as funny when Linux people whine about the lack of a Linux distribution that works like OS X. Hmmm, maybe that's because Apple pays developers market wage to create their interface, rather than relying on community contributions by random, unaccountable people? Also, it seems that the Enlightenment WM is really supposed to mimmic OS X, (...) Have you ever used Enlightenment ( probably not )? It is nothing like OSX. The closest you could reasonably come to your statement is to point out the existence of a OSX skin. Also, Enlightenment predates OSX by quite a bit, so it would be hard for it to be designed as an OSX clone. Then again, that's the problem with the Linux community. Instead of contributing towards a common project and common goals, everyone goes off and totally duplicates the effort of everyone else. You end up with dozens of WMs, dozens of text editors, dozens of e-mail clients, a dozen web browsers, hundreds of OSs (that's what a distro is, after all) and not ONE of them approaches the quality of a commercial OS. There are ( surprise) dozens of email clients, text editors et al. for most OSes. I think you'll find a large number of these programs are not linux-exclusive. vi and emacs can be found on almost any nix system, for example. Including several commercial ones. Now counting a distro as a full OS is pushing it quite a bit, but even so, there are commercial distros - by your definition RedHat and SuSE don't approach their own quality.
An CD or DVD drive, or even a USB keyfob will do that quite nicely. With the added advantage of not being astronomically prone to failures. And they'll be faster. And they have more space. There is one reason to have a floppy drive - it's simply that a lot of older systems without CD/R drives or USB can only write to that media, but that is by definition a shrinking need.