"Mayayana" on Fri, 20 Mar 2020 13:35:47
-0400 typed in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general the following:
"pyotr filipivich" wrote

| I will take your word for it. But it fits with my opinion, that
| much is done with Windows "for the needs of the plot" err
| programmers.
|

I think that's true much more with open source. Windows
is commercial. It has to satisfy business customers. Macs
are even more so. Everything on a Mac is either effortless
or can't be done. It's locked down, top-shelf, and kiddie-ready.
Windows has to adapt to a lot more hardware variety, and
it has to maintain a great deal of backward compatibility.
They also have to straddle the boundary between Mac and
Linux. Configurable by IT but usable by normal people. So
they do things like hide the real settings behind an intimidating
button marked "Advanced".

Open source, on the other hand, is not commercial, so there's
no customer who has to be satisfied. Don't like fluorescent green
text in a black window? Screw you! Compile it yourself!

Did you notice that a couple of Linux people got nasty
recently when I said youtube-dl needs a GUI? Those people,
the kind of programmers you're thinking of, don't want
civilians to be able to use computers. That's why Linux is such
a mess. You can probably clear the Clipboard on Linux. And
the instructions probably start with, "Open the console
shell interface of your choice and start Perl..."

"it's a simple procedure involving lasers..."

Sigh.
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pyotr filipivich
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