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by Vogateer » Wed Feb 06, 2008 4:30 pm
That Matt Asay article is ridiculous. Linus says Apple's HFS+ is crap, and Asay acts like he's talking about the user interface. Yeah, I can see where he might get confused, because I know when I hear "filesystem" I just immediately think of the entire graphical user interface. The two terms are practically interchangeable. What ludicrous garbage.
Honestly, I try to keep a list of professional trolls who wish they were Dvorak or Rob Enderle, but it's almost impossible to keep up with them all, there are just so many imitators out there writing shocking, misleading headlines and badly written articles. In this article, I don't think you can even qualify it as "taking a quote out of context" because the quote IS in context, and the filesystem part is mentioned in the quote, and Matt Asay just went ahead and intentionally misconstrued the quote anyway to suit his trollish purposes.
Even if Linus had been talking about the UI, "Normal people" can't use OS X, either, judging by my experience with a dozen iMacs and just as many "normal people" at work. I get a barrage of questions, daily, concerning just about everything. OS X still holds on to some bad UI decisions, like the Menu bar at the top of the screen. Separating the menus from the application window just makes for confused users who haven't learned the concept of applications having "focus." The dock doesn't really register with them either, apparently, judging from the number of users who choose to move a window down near the bottom of the screen instead of minimizing it to the dock. And you can just forget about the nightmare printing to multiple printers.
Vim is beautiful
