"I still remember the day very clearly. It was Monday, October 27, 2003. Several thousand developers - and, let's face it, quite a few garden variety Windows enthusiasts - charged into Hall A at the Los Angeles Convention Center like teenage girls at a Justin Timberlake concert, volleying for the best seats. I've been to more Bill Gates keynotes than I can count, and this was the first time I ever saw anyone climb over other people in order to secure a better view (no offense to Mr. Gates, but he's not exactly a dynamic speaker). It was PDC 2003 and everything was right with my world." Read more of the editorial here.
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Member since:2006-03-03
"For hot plugging USB devices it is a much more 'natural' and pleasant experience in Linux OSs and MAC OS X."
On my Mac, hotplugging usb-devices are't so pleasant.. if I remove the usb-stick/camera/whatever without unmounting it I get an errormessage.. I know its there for a reason, but there has to be an easier way..
Edited 2006-04-20 13:38
Member since:2006-03-08
"On my Mac, hotplugging usb-devices are't so pleasant.. if I remove the usb-stick/camera/whatever without unmounting it I get an errormessage.. I know its there for a reason, but there has to be an easier way.. "
The only workaround is to get used to unmount a device before uplugging it.
On the other hand half of the times I try to "unmount" a USB key from a win XP box I get the "Not now, device is busy" error box, in that case, no toher way than unplugging the device a la barbarian...
I prefer OS X and Linux way of dealing USB storage .... 
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2005-07-11
Rather I meant printer set up, and file sharing set up, etc.
Indeed equipment and server setups have been getting easier and easier in Linux for the non computer-savvy, but still those tend to be straightforward in MS Windows XP rather than often having to find various pieces of information yourself like in Linux.
For those who have computer experience it is indeed quite immaterial, but for so many users out there, they just want something to be plugged in and work - printers and other computers about their house included.
However, in terms of USB devices I do think that the Linux and Apple 'automatically appear on the desktop without user disturbance' approach is much better than the MS Windows XP 'user-interrupt' approach. In MS Windows XP, a short time later it interrupts me and then informs me that I have plugged something in as though I didn't know. For hot plugging USB devices it is a much more 'natural' and pleasant experience in Linux OSs and MAC OS X.
Edited 2006-04-20 04:37