The blog of the Ancient Mariner: Evolution of desktops

Friday, 2 May 2008

Evolution of desktops

Just found this page.

The thing I find most interesting is just how ropey some of those Mac screengrabs look compared to some versions of windows. System 4 or 5 (I forget now, 1990 is a long time ago) was what introduced me to useful computing (PCs mostly seemed to run DOS which, frankly, stunk. And SMART really wasn't). I had a love affair with Macs right up until Windows 95 had been out and refined for a couple of years, at which point I realised Apple had failed to keep up with user interface development. Fortunately no-one told them.

The writer must be a Linux fanboy - those KDE screengrabs look far in advance of either Windows or Macintosh. Reality as I remember it was somewhat less refined from my experience with mandrake 9.0.

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Why not?

Some years ago I wrote about things relating to church I thought were important then and probably still do to an extent. So many of us want to make sure stuff is right, trying to differentiate ourselves, yet also often miss the more important stuff, the bigger picture.

I watch various people doing church in different ways and wonder how much God is concerned about our 'important' bits of theology or stances we take. The church stream I was once so pleased to be part of is starting to look like every other church to me, so maybe it's time I had a little humility instead of pride at being different.