I'm still waiting for the part where you tell me what "features" X has that make it a better GUI for a desktop operating system.[/list]I never said it was. I could come up with a few ancillary things, mostly customability related (for me it's things like being able to focus without clicking, focus without raising, and even click without raising, some of which you can do with MS Windows, but not without sacrificing stability, IME).

I think that X has a greater feature set than MS Windows' GUI. Note that X doesn't include Xm, Xaw, Gtk, etc. The fact that they failed to specify a solid consistent user interface is both a shortcoming and a feature IMO. But there are a lot of inconsistencies within MS Windows, too, even in MS apps, not to mention absurd skinnable and UI-non-compliant applications like WinAmp, RealOne, and Trillian (the UI is absurd, not necessarily the app itself).

The thing is, X has all the features that MS Windows' GUI has, plus more. It's the application developers combined with the lack of a consistent UI spec that have ``ruined'' it, IMO.