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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
It's interesting to see each desktop OS try for convergence and end up harvesting consumer annoyance -- Apple for concealing the file tree and cloning iOS limitations in Mountain Lion, Windows 8 for the reasons discussed above, and Linux Ubuntu for its Unity GUI. A friend who just installed Ubuntu 13.10 has been telling me that (a) installation was the smoothest he'd ever experienced on his tower -- every driver worked perfectly -- and (b) Unity is a horrorshow. He had the same reaction to the new Linux GUI that many Windows users have had to 8's (i.e., he found a way to delete it).
And Mountain Lion annoyed two developer friends so much that they've been talking -- ever since ML was first introduced -- about buying Windows desktops after decades of development solely for Apple devices. Another friend who's a soundtrack composer in LA hates Logic 9 and Pro Tools 11 (both eliminated third-party TDM plugins) so much that he's just returned to Leopard so that he can run Logic 8 and an earlier iteration of PT.
Perhaps Google has the right idea: Creating a laptop/desktop OS that's meant not to be convergent (Android isn't Chrome) but to extrapolate on the laptop-idiomatic ramifications of ideas typically confined to mobile devices without proper keyboards.
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We started going down hill, when someone (MS probably) decided that "directories" were hard and "folders" would be easier. Since then we have gone to "My Files," "My Music," My Folders," in case someone shares the computer.
Many times I get on a machine because I have been asked to solve a problem and I need to know where a file is. Guess what. The user doesn't know. Only that there is a problem.
I know you can argue about ease of use, but then what about backups.
I store certain files no matter where they come from in certain directories. Then if I need a copy, I can go the that directory or just backup the entire directories.