>>>>> "Petro" == Petro <petro@auctionwatch.com> writes: >> I am just dying to find out why this is so. I find the unices I >> work with to be much more usable than any incarnation of >> Windows. So what exactly do you put into 'usability'? Petro> Consistency of UI, availibility and integration of Petro> applications, "slickness" of look and feel. [...] That's just one aspect of usability. If I start talking about pipes and redirection, perl, grep, sed, awk, xargsm emacs, make etc., then I'm sure that there are many out there who get a usability hard-on. Does the Windows platform in any incarnation have the degree of flexibility and perfect interaction that the dozens of common Unix utilities provide? Yes, Windows has GUI consistence that Unix can't compare with, but there's certainly more to it than that. It is dangerous and wrong to think that usability is only about Joe Schmoe; it is also about him, and in many cases it is primarily about him, but it is often in his name that ambitious users are slaughtered at the sacrificial altar. It has always been typical for DOS and Windows applications that they try to do everything themselves until every desktop clock or whatever gizmo can check your E-mail or feed your goldfish. When weighing the areas in which Windows and Unix respectively are consisten, Unix wins by a wide margin on my subjective scale. There are those who have different priorities, but that, contrary to what some people seem to shout, does not invalidate mine. Martin -- Homepage: http://www.cs.auc.dk/~factotum/ GPG public key: http://www.cs.auc.dk/~factotum/gpgkey.txt
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