Gauguntu OS. You are an MF, and I don't mean multi-functional. I double-dog dare ya to leave that on your desktop for a week. And I think I have the high moral ground here because I actually have one of Vincent's paintings as my desktop picture.
I do admit that's one of my least favorite Gauguntus.
Posts: 17099 | Location: The Left Coast | Registered: Sun May 04 2003
That's one of my favorites. That whole Brittany period, I think, is his best work.
As for Ubuntu. WTF? It's the Up With People operating system, doing an end run around capitalism... peace, love and opensource, and so you KNOW there's never going to be any decent software for it. In order to even be available as a flavor of Unix, it had to be patronized by a billionaire. Hey listen, I'm all for making operating systems that are easy to use and easy to install, power to the people... but you're never going to see Adobe develop for it. You'll be stuck with GIMP (perfect name)... the quintessential work-in-progress crapware.
I'm waiting for the COMMERCIAL software guys, Apple, Microsoft... to come along and make an operating system that works. Apple has the tools, the legacy, the marketing chops to make it happen. They just have to put usability back on the table as a way to make money. I know it's easier to fool rubes than work for a living, but I believe in my heart of hearts that the SECOND Apple abandons the casual use nonsense that has characterized the OS X development, and starts going back to a more legacy/user-centric vision, they'll rule the friggin' earth.
Indeed Gauguntu's Gauguinesque Image Manipulation Program, though speedy, nevertheless drove poor sister Petra nuts with its interface and apparently inconsistent behaviour. She wants Photoshop Elements.
Gauguntu's Open Office app crashes on me all the time. Still, G's interface is rather pleasant and no-nonsense, and the user can customize it, two immensely important things that the childish and egotistic Leopold lacks.
Posts: 2682 | Location: The Netherlands | Registered: Fri May 16 2003
I realized that opensource geeks need to make money, or they produce crap. Probably part of the reason Leoptard is so weak, is that so much of it was FREE. Whereas, you get the sense that when they designed the legacy Mac, it was a think-tank, where people were getting a paycheck. And probably all the doughnuts and coffee they could consume.
If I was a billionaire like the South African responsible for Ubuntu, I'd simply offer a 30 million dollar PRIZE for anyone who could make a commercially viable operating system that was more MAC-Like. The first person who could give us legacy Mac responsiveness and interface customizability, along with the... um, whatever the hell they say Unix has... of Unix; then they'd cash in.
I believe in my heart of hearts that the SECOND Apple abandons the casual use nonsense that has characterized the OS X development, and starts going back to a more legacy/user-centric vision, they'll rule the friggin' earth.
Yes, like the legacy did. .
Posts: 3205 | Location: Agoura Hills, California | Registered: Sun June 08 2003
I double-dog dare ya to leave that on your desktop for a week. And I think I have the high moral ground here because I actually have one of Vincent's paintings as my desktop picture.
Though Gauguinus is slowly getting to me, I don't want to look at Jesus for a week. I'll choose another Gauguinus for the experiment.
I didn't think you could hack it. But I have no problem looking at Vincent's painting of the interior corridors of the insane asylum on my desktop for weeks now. (And those sunflowers are nice too.) But I admit that I couldn't look at a picture of Jesus hanging on a cross on my desktop.
I might even end up, Steve, Using Billy Gates’ XP.
Well, at least you have some choice in the matter now. I can't imagine trying to use OS X for textual work (reading, writing, and such). It's such a mess. But thank god one can now see their windows reflected in the dock. How did we ever get by without that before?
Posts: 17099 | Location: The Left Coast | Registered: Sun May 04 2003
My monitor at home is 1400 x 1050. The one at work is 1280 x 1024. But I'd be glad to tile, stretch, or center-in-the-middle. Anything for sweet Jessica.
Posts: 17099 | Location: The Left Coast | Registered: Sun May 04 2003
I converted one to black and white, and scaled it to 2560 x 1600 for the 30-incher. Looks great. And since most of my working windows tend to be arranged toward the left, it's not too distracting.
I have a collection of large format portraits like that for desktops... women whose faces I like, and that I've found at high enough resolution. But sometimes even a face is too distracting, so I switch back to my normal plain solid gray dark desktop pattern.
