First impression of Vista

[Robert Brockway]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:

> Yes, I believe that is it exactly.  I'm perfectly happy to have Vista
> drive people to (drink) Linux, but I think this one is just an example
> of why UI decisions are hard - I see similar wrong-headedness in the
> major desktops for Linux too.

I think you are right but it shows some of the power of the approach of X 
really (and also the power of OSS).  X (and as a result Linux) offers a 
huge variety of GUIs for users.  Thus if one finds brain-dead behaviour in 
KDE or Gnome (or both) there are still plenty of options.  If one finds 
brain-dead behaviour in the MS-Vista GUI how many alternatives are 
available?  Few or none.

Cheers,

Rob

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