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Reasons I swear: @ w
- Microsoft Windows
- You probably know why and you're probably wrong. While I do hate many other things about Microsoft as well…
But when I must swear @, I swear w
- Cygwin
- A little GNU/bash/X11 to make things more comfortable.
- True X-Mouse Gizmo
- A little more X11 to make things comfortable.
Focus-follows-mouse better than TweakUI (this is how I put up with cluttered floating windows)
and "X11-ish copy'n'paste" (i.e. select to copy, middle-click to paste).
- GridMove
- Not as good as Ratpoison but the best I've found
for Microsoft Windows. Allows decent tiling of windows with minimally annoying configuration and usage.
- KeyTweak
- Only slightly worse than xmodmap and about on par with XKeyCaps.
Accomplishes about the same goal of fixing broken (standard) keyboards…as well as Microsoft Windows will allow.
- ViEmu
- I don't much swear @ Microsoft Word (OOXML & ISO, on the other hand…) but ViEmu WO makes
navigating and editing documents in Microsoft Word a much more pleasant vim-y experience.
- Visual Studio
- I shall at this time draw no direct comparison to GNU Autotools.
See also: ViEmu, mentioned above
- C#
- It has some clever features.
- Microsoft .Net Framework
- So inconsistant. And a horrible name. microsoft.net?
- Apple Inc.
- I subscribe to "Hype Machine Theory Monthly" and thus know how fashionable it is to hate the iPod
(it's just another portable audio player), iPhone ("meh"), OS X (They ruined NEXTSTEP)…
And while I don't think adding a speaker to a computer was reason for Apple Records to sue…iTunes?
No—nobody knew about Apple Records. Ever. Even when the Beatles were releasing.
- X (See also: w/X)
- Mostly @ those who want to replace X. Remove the networking, they say; it's bloat, they say; nobody uses it, they say.
It's not bloat; it actually makes the system smaller and more responsive than many alternatives. It's usually loopback,
which isn't the type of networking these people are likely thinking about. People use it quite a bit. I use it. It's much
nicer to be able to tunnel individual applications than having to have a monolithic desktop-in-a-window. Which brings me to
- VNC
- and other screen/desktop-oriented GUI networking tools. What a terrible idea. Yes, I want my experience of using a remote computer to be completely opaque. No integration whatsoever.
An obvious hack to make up for the lack of networking built into the window system. At least it's nice when the client has a brain-dead window manager.