Multithreaded I/O in the DMD compiler (DDJ article by Walter)

[grauzone]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> grauzone wrote:
>> I'm not expecting anything from Linux GUIs anymore. Seriously, Linux 
>> on the desktop sucks. God, does it suck!
> 
> What standard are you holding it against? The Mac GUI is snappier, but 

First, I didn't ever use a Mac. Hell, these things even require special 
hardware.

Generally, the look and feel "style" of the popular Linux toolkits GTK 
and QT is almost the same as Windows. They look the same. They use the 
same keyboard shortcuts. They regularly clone Windows GUI controls (just 
look at the "tabbed notebook" controls). GTK2 was more like Win32 than 
GTK1. Konqueror is (was) basically an Explorer clone. The GNOME control 
center is a clone of Window's control panel. The taskbar doesn't really 
exist in classic X11 window managers, but KDE and GNOME have it and 
insist on it.

It's obvious the Linux desktop is cloning from Windows (and maybe Mac), 
but they are bad at it. I always get this feeling when using Windows.

Of course it could be because I was used to Windows. But hey, there are 
dozens of things GTK/QT/GNOME/KDE cloned from Windows _after_ I switched 
to Linux.

> overall the Mac is still not as stable as Ubuntu. I don't miss anything 
> from the Windows GUI.

Me too. Without doubt, there are cases where Linux GUIs do better than 
Windows.

And then there's the fact that some parts I used to do in a GUI moved to 
the command line. Although I normally prefer GUIs. Seriously, Linux GUI 
file managers suck. Here I prefer bash.

> Andrei