OSNews is Exploring the Future of Computing

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 24th Jun 2007 13:44 UTC

Federkiel writes: "People working with Apple computers are used to a very consistent user experience. For a large part this stems from the fact that the Lisa type of GUI does not have the fight between MDI and SDI. The question simply never arises, because the Lisa type of GUI does not offer the choice to create either of both; it's something different all along. I usually think of it as 'MDI on steroids unified with a window manager'. It virtually includes all benefits of a SDI and and the benefits of an MDI." Read on for how I feel about this age-old discussion.

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RE[3]: That's only a part of it

by Flatland_Spider on Sun 24th Jun 2007 15:31 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: That's only a part of it"

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And the one that grabbed the most amount of people in total is very much more likely to be the one that the greatest amount of people disliked least, than the one they liked best.

That and had the brightest shiny. My roommate's girlfriend had him install Ubuntu on her laptop <s>because of</s> for Beryl after she saw him playing with it.

Not saying that it would be the only reason that people would choose one but attractive packaging does help.

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