Quote: "OSX is for you then. :-P "
It really would be if it was more flexible and open. In fact years back, before I got into Linux, I was considering it for the better security model. I'm glad I got into Linux though, I learned more having to do things the hard way and I also discovered the joys (and costs) of building your own system. There's probably an alternate universe where I only own a Mac.
Quote: " So my argument is: Shared objects are great in an ideal world where everything declares its dependencies... "
And it's an argument I agree with. However, this is not a perfect world. We're at a point where storage is no issue. Modularity has other benefits: libanana6 need not have legacy support for libanana3, for example. You may find that OpenGL, for example, would have a lot less bloat if they didn't try and maintain compatibility.
Quote: "Now if you want to gripe about Linux, there's nothing quite as bad as dealing with video drivers."
And wireless drivers and soundcard drivers.
Quote: " So you're getting it backwards. UAC is a problem for people because they aren't following standards..."
Which is exactly what I said and why I said that if Xenix had been favoured over MSDOS, it wouldn't have been an issue.
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