On Apr 15, 2011, at 4:33 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2011, John Meier wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Maybe they'll be fixing that. I don't like things to change a lot because it means having to learn a bunch of stuff that will go away later. For the future I have to hope for either something more consistent across releases or something that is so easy to use that there's nothing to learn. >> >> >> Have you ever tried OS X? :P > > > I have a lot of GNU/Linux/etc software that I want to use and it would be hard to find everything for OS X and install it. It's a breeze with Ubuntu. It sounds like Ubuntu is trying to mimic more of the OS X interface features, so maybe I'll end up with the OS X experience whether I like it or not. It does look nice. > > I also want to support free software -- so if it works, and it's free as in freedom, I'm not going to switch to a nonfree solution even if it has a lot of nice bells and whistles. > > Mike Perhaps his point is that Unity and Mac OS X's Finder have a fair amount in common. I'm pretty happy about that. When I want a GUI, it's a nice default. That said, most of my boxes are headless or virtual. Thomas