“The “Quit” command in applications today is a relic from the
days when the original Macintosh had no hard disk and couldn’t
multitask. Modern applications have made this command increasingly
annoying. Fortunately, though, modern PCs have also made it
increasingly unnecessary. Mobile operating systems have, for the
most part, eliminated the“”Quit” command completely. In Ubuntu, the messaging and sound
menus will help us do the same. A compromise that got out of
hand“It’s easy to forget just how much more powerful personal
computers are today, compared with the machines on which some of
our user interface conventions began.”