Re: problems installing xquartz
Re: problems installing xquartz
- Subject: Re: problems installing xquartz
- From: Chris Jones <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:30:31 +0000
On 12/12/12 15:20, Jamie Kennea wrote:
On Dec 11, 2012, at 5:53 PM, Erik Olson<email@hidden> wrote:
Your number seems a bit low. I'd say 98% of Apple users don't care about X11. But those 2% are extremely influential. Did you see any pictures of the NASA control room for the Mars Curiosity landing? All Macs except for one.
Certainly correct, and I speak as someone who works in the Mission Control Center for a NASA satellite, where we use a lot of Macs. Nobody here ever complained about the installation experience of X11 though.
Agreed. I work at CERN, where macs are now very common. The reason I
would say is the UNIX heritage, so you get all the power of the command
line etc. + X11, plus the nice native GUI and applications of course.
X11 is heavily used, but the time to install it or the number of clicks
is really not a concern. X11 is now arguably better supported, since
Apple has outsourced it to Xquartz, than it was when it was shipped with
OSX, since Xquartz is more up to date anyway.
I know you seemingly won't be convinced, but this really is a non-issue.
Jamie
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