Re: Mac OSX sucks big time

In article <JfCdndoOW-pQ4rfZRVny1Q@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Fremlins
<freminlins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Instead of
worrying like a bunch of oily squid about the eye candy which does
nothing but slow the system down, they would be better off taking their
heads out of the sand, drinking less coffee and writing proper error
messages.

User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060203)

You mean like Linux does? Uh-huh.

As just one example of the hurdles I ran into when trying to install
linux, GNOME didn't bother giving me an error message to explain why it
couldn't drive my monitor at anything other than 640x480. I had to dig
through the logs looking for clues, and take several educated guesses,
before I could fix the problem by hand-editing a configuration file.
The OS was *zero* help at fixing the problem.

So I'm not sure what you'd suggest we use that's completely free of
confusion, but linux is definitely *not* that solution right now, and I
don't see that changing in the near future.

--
Garner R. Miller
Clifton Park, NY =USA=
http://www.garnermiller.com/
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