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On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 17:33 -0400, Chris Devers wrote: > On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Luke Kanies wrote: > > > Getting MP3s to work on Gentoo was hours and hours of work > > Stop right there, doctor, I think we've diagnosed the problem. > > "Doctor doctor, it hurts when I do this." > "Then don't do that." > > > As Peter said, you are *so* ready for a Mac... I think it's so cute when people 1) don't think I already have a mac (much less a few), and 2) think I don't hate OS X about as much as I hate Linux. I can certainly appreciate that OS X is stable, and I love the fact that my laptop wakes up from sleep very quickly (even if networking still takes 90 seconds to come back up), but there's still plenty to hate about OS X, and that hate is all the more pertinent for me since it could have been based on the most modern OS out there (BeOS) instead of another crappy, outdated, retarded, crappy (did I say that already?) Unix OS. Yes, I know, NextStep was a very good Unix, but that's not saying very damn much -- it's 30 year old tech, and it never was and never will be a good desktop. It's no coincidence that everything that makes OS X good is entirely unrelated to it sitting on top of Unix, so why even bother have it do so? Frankly, in a lot of ways OS X makes me madder than Linux, because I understand that the Linux guys are all just wankers looking for a good time, but the OS X guys are supposed to be making a living building the best OS out there, and instead they wasted 2 full release cycles on toning down their lickability, and they still haven't fucking figured out filetyping. Filename extensions? Seriously? No, seriously? Really? *faints* > Really, does anyone use Linux as a desktop computer and *enjoy* the > experience? Sure, it's an educational experience to have to tweak every > damned thing just to do *any* tamned thing, but at what point does it > cease to be educational and start to be self-punishment? > > I think it stopped being fun for me about five years ago. I don't know that I've had "fun" maintaining any desktop ever. I used to have a lot of fun _using_ BeOS, and there are sometimes apps I have fun using, but in general, I'm a 'wareHater, so it's all misery to me. At least Linux is so far from the mark that it doesn't offend me; OS X could have been a contender (and who knows, maybe they'll go back and reassess some of the other great features in BeOS, now that Spotlight is copying BFS), and instead it's, um, lickable. Because that's sure what I was begging for. > Why anyone would willfully decide to fight against Linux audio, or > setting up X-Windows (really, who gives a damn about all the parameters > in XF86Config-4? What human should ever have to care about the monitor's > HorizSync and VertRefresh rates?) is a complete mystery to me. Totally agree there. > Sure, it's nice for a server, but the best way to deal with Linux is by > keeping it at the far end of a remote ssh session, not sitting on your > desk where the ferocious little monster can rip your face off. > > As Peter said, you are *so* ready for a Mac... I'd be glad to give you my shipping address if you think you can resolve that problem for me. -- My favorite was a professor at a University I Used To Be Associated With who claimed that our requirement of a non-alphabetic character in our passwords was an abridgement of his freedom of speech. -- Jacob Haller --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://config.sage.orgThere's stuff above here
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