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Comment Re:What's the point? (Score 2) 35

Every once in a while some executive comes around and says, "If we merge these two products together, we'll save money on development costs in the future." The new product sucks because it no longer works well with at least one of the platforms. On Mac, the changes made a while ago to Systems Preferences and changes to the UI in Tahoe are great examples.

Comment Re:Look and feel (Score 1) 116

Linux on the desktop failed me years ago. I got tired of running Windows for Office and Linux for a csh and later bash prompt and gcc tools. I got tired of having to find some weird configuration file to make an otherwise mainstream piece of hardware work. Keep in mind, we're talking late 90's early 00's. OSX 10.0 came out (yes, I actually ran 10.0 during the brief period it was out) and they were both wrapped up into one computer. I still needed Windows for games, but I was usually otherwise on my Mac. Since Jony Ive beat OSX (now macos) with an ugly stick, I've mostly been on Windows 10. I'm on ESR for Windows 10 because Jony Ive seems to have loaned his ugly stick to whoever is in charge of Windows 11's design. Also, I can't begin to explain how nice it is to have an operating system that largely hasn't changed every day you log in for years on end. Everything is where I left it and works the same way it did yesterday. And for the record, almost all server development I do is on Linux, so it's never failed me there..

Comment Re: Computer crimes are over penalized (Score 1) 57

Doing something like this as âoepaybackâ for getting fired is stupid from the start. Seriously, where do you think this will actually take you? And a baseline calculation is probably started by calculating wages for 2500 employees for the day who couldnâ(TM)t work while the IT staff tried to work out what happened.

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