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Subject: [OM] Re: Communications [was lighting]
From: Jay Maynard <jmaynard@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 22:15:54 -0600
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 02:42:40PM +1030, David Thatcher wrote:
> That said, why would you do that when a couple of hundred bucks worth of
> generic PC hardware would do that just as well?  (or rather, *better*,
> because you buy a mouse that takes advantage of the more advanced 
> window system capabilities.)

I'm using a (gasp) Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 5000 on my Mac. Works
fine. Microsoft even supplies a driver to enable the extra buttons and tilt
scroll wheel.

> I guess the one thing it gives you is the benefit of being able to
> switch to the Mac user interface (which I personally find, after two
> weeks of bashing on it, I probably wouldn't be able bring myself to use
> by choice).

I'm just the reverse. After using the OS X user interface, I wisht he Linux
community would jettison X: it's big, bloated, and slow, and solves a
problem that no longer needs solving, as nobody uses a graphics terminal
that's driven by a big multiuser compute server any more.
-- 
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