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Up until Lion I would completely disagree with you and say the UX of OS X is simply the best. Yes, I'm talking against Windows 7, Gnome, KDE et al. Now however, I'm starting to cast a wandering eye back towards Linux.

Windows 7 however, is a frigging awful experience any way you slice it. It's stupid little things like the alt-tab selecting whatever window is in the background when really you just want to cycle through the icons. Also, I can't believe they still haven't killed the dysfunctional bloatware ridden system tray. The retarded nanny-ware labyrinth that has to be navigated to connect to a wireless network makes my eyes bleed.

The way I'm feeling now is that all operating systems suck hard, but OS X sucks a little less, at least until Lion - which, again, is starting to suck much harder for all the reasons outlined in this video - and more.

Also, I don't give a shit about all the other "cult" crap you cite as a reason not to use an OS. I don't pick my computers based on style, other people's behaviour or religious beliefs - and IMO neither should you.


>> ^srd:

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
Fuck Lion. I'm waiting for OSX Direwolf.

Fuck OS X. I've had these tinboxes (aka MacBook Pro) thrust on me by my ex-employer about a year ago. My last encounter with Apple computers before that was with a Mac Classic when I was in 10th grade. So I didn't really know what I was getting into. Before that I worked for 15 years on Linux.
At first I thought "Ok, Apple, you're all about UX and intuitive design. Enlighten me! (and lets forget the abomination that was itunes for the moment)". Oh boy was I sorely disappointed. The workflow that was thrust on me by MacOS X on the GUI side rubbed me the wrong way, regardless of which aspect. So I thought "Ok, fair enough, those were the default settings. Lets change things a bit.... Uh. Wait? That half dozen scared little options is _all_ I get to fiddle with?". Trying to google for solutions was just as sobering. Apple ignoring feature requests for over 8 years, other people frustrated with the same problems I was facing and the most frequent response to valid questions on (non-Apple) help sites wasn't a "I'm sorry that's not possible" but a condescending "Why would you even think of doing that?".
I lasted for one more day after that before installing Virtualbox and running a useable environment (for me) in there.
I'm not going even to get into the hardware aspects of these machines...
So what I'm taking away from my forced encounter of the turtleneck kind is, we're getting the worst of both worlds:
a) Apple is currently as arrogant as Microsoft was in the 90s
b) Apples user/fanboy base is just as bad as the Linux crowd was in the 90s.
=> It's a cult. They are producing overpriced, mediocre machines with mediocre UI that is a far cry from the intuitiveness that is so often touted.
I'm glad some people are escaping the Jobsian reality distortion field.

>> ^Gallowflak:

>> ^ant:
animation music

Thanks, but I'm gonna remove this from the animation channel because it's not animation, either 2D or 3D animation, nor is it stop-motion and no keyframe is involved at all. Doesn't seem fair.


Dude, did you notice when that dinosaur roared and then started bucking around? That's some classic animation right there.

Your video, Gnome Chompski: THE GAME, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Guess what I'm playing right now?


Hello Kitty Online?

it's not a bouncing dog.
there's a gnome behind that fence tossing this dog up.

>> ^ant:

animation music


Thanks, but I'm gonna remove this from the animation channel because it's not animation, either 2D or 3D animation, nor is it stop-motion and no keyframe is involved at all. Doesn't seem fair.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'half, life, duke, gordon, freeman, gnomes, chainsaws, zombies' to 'half, life, duke, gordon, freeman, gnomes, chainsaws, zombies, left 4 dead' - edited by dystopianfuturetoday

>> ^Peroxide:
I like his message, but the height of his pants, they are so high.
I say this with the utmost respect because I think he is great: James Randi is the most well spoken gnome on earth.

Ah cool.

In reply to this comment by NicoleBee:
Well, she's a dwarf lady with out of control eyebrows, yes! A character from www.lfgcomic.com


In reply to this comment by ant:
Oh, wow. Haha. So is it supposed to be a gnome and not a bee person?

In reply to this comment by NicoleBee:
I changed icons uhh.. maybe four months ago? But since then it's been the same colour!

In reply to this comment by ant:
Did you change the shirt on your avatar?

Well, she's a dwarf lady with out of control eyebrows, yes! A character from www.lfgcomic.com


In reply to this comment by ant:
Oh, wow. Haha. So is it supposed to be a gnome and not a bee person?

In reply to this comment by NicoleBee:
I changed icons uhh.. maybe four months ago? But since then it's been the same colour!

In reply to this comment by ant:
Did you change the shirt on your avatar?

Oh, wow. Haha. So is it supposed to be a gnome and not a bee person?

In reply to this comment by NicoleBee:
I changed icons uhh.. maybe four months ago? But since then it's been the same colour!

In reply to this comment by ant:
Did you change the shirt on your avatar?

This comment here pretty much sums up why Linux is still having difficulty even treading water as a desktop.

http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1826490&cid=33931876

Or here for your reading pleasure

1. Confusing distros Just thinking about all the different distros and configurations still gives me a headache. Ubuntu has blunted this somewhat, but even with that you have to get into the Gnome vs. KDE thing, which is damned confusing to a layperson. The worst part of this is trying to download software for Linux off of some website and running into multiple versions with odd notations regarding different distros.
2. Poor documentation Again, Ubuntu helps. But even that is spotty compared to Windows. And the "documentation" website of many distros (and Linux software apps) is little more than a bugfix list.
3. Software, Software, Software this is the biggest problem, and not so easily dismissed as some fans would pretend. My mom, for example, uses special software to interface with her high-end sewing machine. Is it available for Linux? Probably not. Can I just direct her to a clone of equal quality? Probably not.
4. Little support (if not openly hostile) There aren't a lot of places to call for Linux support. And a lot of the places you can go for support on the net are filled with Linuix fanatics who are openly hostile to Windows switchers and newbies. The level of "you don't belong here" attitude towards newbies in Linux circles makes Apple fans look civil.
5. Ways of doing things that are confusing to a Windows user with windows, I can go to a website, download an installer and install my software. with Linux I can install it via the built-in installer. but that only works if said software is in the repository. If not, getting it installed is often a lot more complex than just downloading a file and double clicking on it to install. Which brings me to:
6. Still too much reliance on the command line interface Telling someone to break out a command line and type "sudo apt-get whateverthefuck" is like telling a Windows user to reinstall DOS and learn its syntax.

>> ^dag:

I get that sometimes- my theory is that it's just hitting a particularly slow server.


Have you ever noticed that if you re-load the vid on a a machine with a diff IP the buffering performance is entirely different? I have my work laptop on a VPN, hence going through an entirely different set of connections on top of my own, and often I find that a video that buffers slow from my network is fast on theirs. I'd guess that their load balancer(non-existent nerd word) just popped you onto a shitty server.

... either that or there are layer 3 gnomes in the youtube series of tubes.

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Gnome Chompski on the other hand is a plain darling, though he's awfully quiet about his political leanings.