On 3/22/07, Marc Espie <espie@nerim.net> wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 03:28:29PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> > Their challenge is that they need to provide choice so they
> > have what they call reasonable defaults.
>
> No, they don't need to provide choice. At least not that many. They decide
> to do so.  That's most of what's wrong with OS stuff these days.

That's exactly why I switched long ago.  Poking around at 1000
different little apps all doing the same thing was fun for awhile on
Linux but I eventually realized that all the choices actually reduced
my productivity.

A second reason I switched was because of OS cohesion.

Greg