From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 3 20: 2:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79E9C37B419 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 20:02:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish ([10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g3442Pr68589; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 06:02:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <003e01c1db8d$88a745e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Mike Meyer" Cc: "Randall Hamilton" , References: <20020402113404.A52321@lpt.ens.fr><3CA9854E.A4D86CC4@mindspring.com><20020402123254.H49279@lpt.ens.fr><009301c1da83$9fa73170$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15530.6987.977637.574551@guru.mired.org><012601c1dadb$104d5100$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15531.2846.277278.29276@guru.mired.org><005e01c1db44$e10d2a40$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15531.27851.19169.720598@guru.mired.org><001301c1db55$7c883950$0301a8c0@NITEDOG><009201c1db5e$41b1baa0$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15531.33743.830853.456500@guru.mired.org><00c801c1db62$baa46b20$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15531.36674.46968.714882@guru.mired.org> Subject: Re: Anti-Unix Site Runs Unix Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 06:02:25 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike writes: > No problem. You can find it at http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/papers/windowing.html That's just a discussion of window managers. There is far more to a desktop OS than a window manager. It's odd that the second-place desktop OS, the Mac, uses essentially the same interface as the first-place desktop OS. If the design is so bad, why are the two leading operating systems using it? > Where's yours? I have only my empirical evaluation, and it is probably not entirely objective. > Since you didn't list these putative > advantages ... Since operating systems are not normally limited to window managers, with all other components being ignored, I didn't think it necessary to list the rest. > I believe that your cost of learning is high > enough that such an investment isn't worth > your while. You don't have enough information to determine my cost of learning, so this is conjecture. > That depends on how fast you work and how much > you charge for your time. Only if all else is equal, which it isn't. > Those same people will also realize that just > because this holds true for some people doesn't > mean it holds true for them all. Nothing holds true for everyone, but the fact that a minority disagrees doesn't make the majority wrong. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message