Re: [RP] ... --solved (with my workspace scripts) -Phuk!

[TBlittlefoot]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 10:37:15AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> >>>>> "TBlittlefoot" == TBlittlefoot  <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>     TBlittlefoot> What a piece of shit operating system. Don't know OS
>     TBlittlefoot> X or Cygwin or Fink at all, but you've given me
>     TBlittlefoot> enough information to allow me to forego wasting any
>     TBlittlefoot> time with them.
> 
> My experience with Mac OS X is it is similar to Microsoft Windows,
> except it has had OpenGL support in the desktop longer (is this a good
> thing?), the menu appears at the top of the screen not the top of the
> window (I dislike this), and windows can only be resized at the bottom
> right corner (to the best of my knowledge).
> 
> cygwin has an X server, that is full screen only (to the best of my
> knowledge), so presumably you can run ratpoison within that if you
> really want to.
> 
> There is also Xming <http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/> which
> allows mixing X-Windows with MS-Windows.
> 
> Nothing beats Linux+Xorg+ratpoison IMHO, but at least options are
> there if you have to use Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X.
> 
> To be fair, there is a advantage to the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X
> approach - a standard window manager on all computers that doesn't
> confuse the hell out of the system administrator when asked to debug
> an unrelated problem over the phone of a desktop computer run by a
> user who doesn't know what they are doing.

Actually, Brian, I don't think those OSes have window managers. Certainly
Windows doesn't. It's all one piece. No seperate X server, window manager,
desktop environment. A bloated and convoluted nightmare. 

Tom