Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] good free virus protection for Win XP?

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Vern Green wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Mike Miller wrote:
> 
>> I agree that the Macs are better.  Who can resist OS X when the other 
>> major option is MS XP?
> 
> I can resist it. I hate OS X. I have had some working with it, and 
> frankly give me a stripped down version of Linux that just does what I 
> need it to do.
>
> Windows XP went nuts trying to make their system more Mac-like. I hate 
> the soft warm and fuzzy graphics and the transitions, zips, fades, icons 
> that jump around and so on and on and on.
>
> I have reverted my XP installation back to a Classic view and I have 
> taken all those fancy pants nonsensical things and turned as many off as 
> I can.
>
> OS X is worse than Windows when it comes to this nonsense. I don't need 
> a leaping Icon to tell me what program I just clicked on.


OK.  So you don't like the pretty moving picture aspect of the GUI, but 
there's more to an OS than that.  Does OS X offer no options for the 
desktop GUI?  It is a BSD-based unix OS, right?

Mike
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