Flawed logic (Score 1)

first off, the fact that an IBMer was involved in the discussion does a lot to discredit the whole article. they have really bad UIs! they, IBM, also fall into the traps he is talking about: designers are frequently not listened to, UIs are designed by the core engineers and influenced by marketing, they need to rush out the next release, the engineer needs some checkbox in place so that he can claim an accomplishment to justify his paycheck.

to be honest, my employer only issues Mac or Windows laptops. i started with a Mac and really tried hard a whole summer to use it, but in the end i dumped it for a Windows laptop over which i installed kubuntu. the help system in Mac OS is super crappy. the package management system is non existent. (the assertion that you just add and remove stuff from applications directory is naive. there is other stuff happening that leaves things broken if you ever update or remove packages.) as a developer it's just too hard to get a good development evironment setup (not just the IDE, but all the tools as well). getting network printers and storage setup on Mac OSX is a crap shoot: sometimes it is easy, but other times it is impossible!

to be honest KDE 4.0 was pretty lame, but i'm loving 4.2!