OSNews > Thread > "RE: Exactly right" by meianoite

Linked by David Adams on Tue 26th Dec 2006 17:48 UTC

An Economist.com editorial examines the OS lay of the land on the eve of Vista's release, and makes an interesting case for why Windows "rules the world". Do you agree? We report, you decide.

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RE: Exactly right

by meianoite on Tue 26th Dec 2006 18:55 UTC in reply to "Exactly right"

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2006-04-05

"Things like drag and drop and copy and paste of complex data (or, in the case of drag and drop, any data at all) work perfectly. This is certainly not the case in Linux."

WTF?! Drag and drop working properly on Windows?! Please, tell me exactly how many apps will produce text clippings when you drag a selection to the desktop. Same thing for audio and image content. Then compare the experience with Mac OS, any version from 7.1 on, for instance. I'm almost willing to bet those work better under KDE than under Windows, but since I'm away from Linux desktops during the holidays...

"The layout of the system (as it appears to users) is simple and straight forward. Because these are as much a part of the OS as the kernel, there is one sound API, one widget API, etc. As a result, things like sound work all the time."

Thanks for the giggle! Ever heard of GDI, GDI+, WinG, the various DirectX incarnations, and now Avalon? How about ACM, VfW, DirectShow, Win95-style drivers vs WDM vs the latest Vista driver model? The whole collection of MSVC and VB libraries lying on system folders under the C:Windows tree?

Even on the same API there are always multiple ways of doing the same damn task. Each with their own set of booboos and workarounds.

Microsoft is only consistent regarding bug-for-bug compatibility.

Which is how pro-MS people twist Windows' bloat into a... feature.

Edit: typo

Edited 2006-12-26 19:07

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RE[2]: Exactly right

by Sphinx on Tue 26th Dec 2006 18:59 in reply to "RE: Exactly right"

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2005-07-09

Just cut and paste from a dos command window to an application window and vice versa, see, totally consistent!

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RE[3]: Exactly right

by alisonken1 on Tue 26th Dec 2006 19:26 in reply to "RE[2]: Exactly right"

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2006-03-20

Actually, I DO cut and paste between my command line window and my application window all of the time.

Works fine for me in Linux.

Edited 2006-12-26 19:27

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