[geeks] Mac definitions

[Jonathan Patschke]

On Thu, 7 Jul 2011, Phil Stracchino wrote:

> Win7 is actually fairly reasonably usable once I've managed to beat it
> into submission.

I didn't have to do much beating.  I just turned off most of the candy I'd
turn off in XP.  It's a perfectly usable host for Visual Studio.  Funny
that I love writing software for Windows[0], but I can hardly stand to use
the OS at all.

> What I've seen of Win8 looks ... awful beyond my ability to express in
> words.  It looks like the ultimate dumbing-down of the GUI metaphor.

Completely antagonistic to anyone trying to get work done, unless there's
a paying job to be had watching videos.

> I still do all my real work on Linux.

My work environment is primarily OSX, FreeBSD, and (sadly) HP-UX 10.  I'm
pretty happy with it.


[0] The API's not bad, considering how old parts of it are.
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