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

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grauzone wrote:

> 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.

That's funny, because I have the opposite experience. Whenever I use windows 
explorer now, it feels so crippled compared to konqueror and that is the 
case in general with windows vs kde for me. Now I'm starting to use KDE apps 
under windows whenever I have to...