Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 13th Aug 2008 23:50 UTC
An interesting article has been making its way around the internet the past few days, titled "Top 10 Usability Highs Of Mac OS". Mac OS X indeed does some things very, very right, just like many other operating systems and graphical environments do some things very, very right. The issue with the list of the article in question is that many of the items on the list are not exactly examples of "Usability Highs" at all.
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"Think of it, do we really need someone to tell us when something goes the way it should?
Perhaps it should.... for example when installing the drivers for the mouse you just hotplugged will take more than two seconds (I think that even ubuntu reacts at once without much delay... but, hey, it's Vista, so.... WOW! Really?).
[10567.373735] usb 4-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
[10567.538816] usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[10567.559013] input: USB Optical Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb4/4-2/4-2:1.0/input/input12
[10567.591851] input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [USB Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-2
And almost instantly, the mouse is ready to roll (literally). "
This is one of the things I love about Linux and OSX. When I connect a mouse I want the thing to work right away, I don;t want to wait until windows decides to find the mouse, pop-up 3 messages letting me know it found the mouse, and then letting me know its ready for use, what sucks even more is that it does this if I move the mouse to a different USB port, really annoying. The same goes for midi control devices (keyboards, etc) and external harddrives. You know how I know my external devices work in Linux and OSX, because they work, I don't need the OS give me a play by play of what its doing to get my devices to work. Can the talk and speed up the process.
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2005-12-18
Perhaps it should.... for example when installing the drivers for the mouse you just hotplugged will take more than two seconds (I think that even ubuntu reacts at once without much delay... but, hey, it's Vista, so.... WOW! Really?).
[10567.373735] usb 4-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
[10567.538816] usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[10567.559013] input: USB Optical Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb4/4-2/4-2:1.0/input/input12
[10567.591851] input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [USB Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-2
And almost instantly, the mouse is ready to roll (literally).