Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> What I'm saying is that "Unix" isn't a single coherant design. It's 
>> 50,000 random people all doing their own seperate thing, and expecting 
>> the result to actually function. Which, almost unbelievably, it does. 
>> But *damn* is it messy...
> 
>   I really fail to see how that is at all different from Windows. ;)

Well, Windoze certainly ended up being a pretty serious mess... But at 
least it does a better job of presenting a coherant appearence if 
nothing else.

The trouble with Linux is that everything is 50,000 utterly *tiny* 
pieces, each of which does almost nothing useful by itself, and you have 
to put thousands of these tiny pieces together to do anything useful.

The trouble with Windoze is that *everything* is one gigantic lump. (And 
it's a very buggy, undocumented and unreliable lump at that.)

Why can't somebody build an OS with a *sane* level of granularity?? What 
would be so hard about that?

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