Non-Apple's Mistake

Re:Non-Apple's Mistake by api on Saturday April 17, 2010 @12:14PM (#1273234)

Windows 7 is an improvement, but I still don't like it. I suppose some of it is personal taste.

I also still consider it ugly from an aesthetic point of view. It's not clean. It's cluttered and counterintuitive.

There's something else too... even with 7, Windows doesn't perform well. NTFS uses a "pessimum" allocation algorithm that seems to achieve maximum conceivable file fragmentation after even moderate use, and I'm still not sure why Windows disk thrashes more than any other OS. With equivalent workloads on Linux and OSX, the disk occasionally blinks. On Windows it thrashes wildly.

"Performance doesn't matter" is a relative of UIs as an afterthought. Performance is a UI issue, and it does matter. It's even more apparently on mobile devices... the iPlatform performs so much better than Windows Mobile. (Android isn't bad either.)

http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i24_fallacy.html

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Re:Non-Apple's Mistake by yesimahuman on Saturday April 17, 2010 @08:51PM (#1274066)

Perhaps I'm less sensitive, but I've noticed no more slow downs than any other OS I've used before.

Not that I'm loyal to any particular platform but I feel a need to voice that I like many of the things MS has done with 7, and that arguments that OS X (at least the UI, I still prefer the *nix environment for development) is far better are just not true anymore. I also enjoy the other desktops like Gnome or IceWM, but 7 is my favorite so far in terms of UI experience.

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