|
|
Post by D. N. Vercáriâ on Dec 10, 2012 5:44:53 GMT -5
If we want to continue talking about these issues, let's do it here.  |
|
|
|
Post by andy on Dec 11, 2012 18:47:25 GMT -5
I can't imagine what you're referring to.
|
|
|
|
Post by andy on Dec 12, 2012 22:27:27 GMT -5
On second thought, perhaps I can. All the major OS people seem to be leaning towards a tablet-oriented system in the last couple of years, and I'm just damned sick of it. I have a tablet, but it runs Android, which was designed to be a touch-oriented system from the start. The Mac system has an iOS-influenced application screen that really, really sucks, but at least you can kill it. Unity is ludicrous; it expects you to type stuff into a search box to find what program you're looking for instead of simply providing you with heirarchical menus. And Win8? Started playing with it during the developer preview, and kept thinking that the actual release would have a way to get rid of the touch-based, crappy-looking "tiles" menu. It didn't.
I run desktops and laptops for serious stuff, and do C and C++ and Ruby programming on 'em. I don't want Fisher-Price-designed interfaces. Fire up a Win8 machine and try to find Explorer so that you can copy something from one directory to another. You can't, unless you know the secret keyboard shortcuts or search for it by typing. It's nonsense, and I'm done with it.
|
|
|
|
Post by D. N. Vercáriâ on Dec 13, 2012 15:21:48 GMT -5
As for Win 8, what I saw was righthanders-only stuff that made my grid my teeth instantly.
Tablet PCs and smartphones aren't a comfortable way to go for me, as I'm getting older and the displays are to effing small - that's why I am sticking with desktops and sufficiently sized notebooks, for which I don't need a simulated handheld touch-and-feel.
Unity is horrible, at some first attempts I couldn't find a simple intuitive way of having more than one open window floating around on the surface of the screen. So I checked out a new Gnome and found that it was almost the same desaster in a different design. If this is progress, it's leading us to a pink and purple contemporary neanderthal in which you don't need typing skills, mouse skills and whatnot anymore... the main philosophy is one of sticky sausage and ketchup fingers on a rubber screen.
Or something.
|
|
|
|
Post by andy on Dec 13, 2012 22:04:38 GMT -5
If you want to go back to the good old days, PC-BSD is a desktop Unix that will do a Gnome 2 install. It's pretty nice! (Of course, you can run Ubuntu and get rid of Gnome 3/Unity, but why should you have to? Should be an option during installation, to my way of thinking. Linux Mint is pretty good too; has several GUI options during install-- I run it with MATE.) Ahhh, how I long for my old SuSE 9.0 machine... |
|
