Perhaps it's how the US claims it's still innovating, when the opposite is actually happening because of it.

From what I've seen of iCloud, Apple could learn a lot about both quality, functionality, and openness. Some of their software seems pretty solid, but their web stuff seems flakey as hell.

I'm a regular poster and haven't had mod points in over two years. I'm getting a little annoyed.

Don't complain to me. I *told* you you wouldn't be happy.

They all suck for specifics. _All_ of them. If it's not written specifically for your business, you're not going to be very happy. If you want something that's not perfect pretty much by definition, you might as well consider something from Apache.

Well, that and the inconsistencies.

I'm obviously not very bright, I used "you're" insteads of "your".

I was going to say something similar: You're runway is obviously in the wrong place.

I find the built-in setting quite easy to use, although they're spread across about 3 different groups. In general, You end up tweaking your display configuration and preferences once, to exactly the way you want them, and never really need to do it again. It's worth the initial effort and you get get a very nice result.

Battery costs will likely go down significantly in the future, although electricity costs will likely go up at least slightly.

I'm coming into it as of 4.x, and have no history with it. I find that for my needs, there's almost nothing I can''t configure.

No love for KDE. I'm an ex-Gnome user. XFCE is okay, but I love the configureability of KDE.

... or meddling with those kids.

... a slow HDMI splitter.

Based on their respective histories, a sensible person would probably trust CCC over Apple.