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

[Don]

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.

I agree. OS's copy even incredibly crappy ideas from each other. (My pet 
hate is the way Windows copied the 'folder' idea from the Mac as an 
analogy for a directory structure, and also got the insane idea that you 
could associate a file with ONE application????).
It's really sad when poor designs get imitated. Nearly always, the copy 
is even worse than the original.


> 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