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On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Simon Cozens wrote:
> Luke A. Kanies:
> > Well, I've already got a powerbook, but the desktop is quite an expense.
> > The main reason I'm putting it off, though, is that I'm a Unix consultant;
>
> What's not Unix about OS X? No, don't get me started about NeXT. But there's
> enough Unix under there to be getting on with.
I'd say that OS X is not-quite-entirely unrelated to essentially any other
Unix OS. Yeah, it's kinda Unix, but not in a way that experience with it
is going to come anywhere near helping me do my job. At least when I
struggle through linux crap I can reuse that knowledge at work, but when I
struggle through OS X crap (you know, netinfo, maintaining resource forks
in CLI tools, that kind of thing) it will never help me at work.
> > but I'd still need to _have_ most of the Gnome crap to use GUI software
> > like AIM clients and such.
>
> So don't use GUI software then. It all sucks, after all.
Uh, yeah, I'm not going to give up GUI software. Just not going happen.
It burns, but better pain than no feeling at all. Or something like that.
--
"What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that
people have stopped banging their heads against?"
--Larry Wall in <1992Aug26.184221.29627@xxxxxxx.xxx>
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