Comment by intrasight
1 day ago
I disagree as it shows a fundamental flaw in terms of separation of concerns that's probably manifest throughout the operating system.
Or to stay it another way, if we see shit like this then we know the whole thing is a hack.
Hmm, that's a good point actually! Hadn't considered that!
It’s like the famous artist putting a clause in a contract that they wanted bowls of M&Ms with the blue ones removed.
Not because they necessarily cared, but because it functions as an easy-to-verify proxy for whether the venue actually read the contract.
The artist was the band Van Halen; the forbidden color was brown
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brown-out/
Eh, it might be or it might not, why is that a valid indication that everything else is wack? There certainly are other things that are bad, maybe many, evidently, but I don't think the corner problem is a fair indicator of that exactly. Numerous things can be discretely bad and poorly directed without there being some ebola virus of bad throughout
That’s funny to call Mac OS a hack compared to windows. Now windows is trying to be backward compatible with DOS and that’s… something. But when we read blog posts explaining why things are how they are in windows i always get the heebie jeebies.
> compared to Windows
I never said that
Well sure we can compare it to niche OS like Linux or vaporware. But without comparison then we probably aren’t taking into account the real life complexity of a desktop OS.
As a related anecdote, my friend said my car was ugly. I asked him what cars he thought looked good. He said “I don’t like cars”. As a result I realized his opinion was worthless
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I know it's popular to shit on Windows (and often it's even justified), however DOS compatibility is long gone. It was still available in 32 bit Windows 10, but not in 64 bit versions.