posted 21 years ago
I don't know at what level the plaf modules start using native windowing services, but there's the possibility that the reason that you get an unsuppported look-and-feel exception is that the low-level native windowing services are simply not available because they are part of Windows, and you're not running Windows.
I can say, however, that while Linux users might be more tolerant, if you were ever to force the MS-WINDOWS look-and-feel on MACINTOSH users, they'd be coming after you with the ropes and knives and sharpened farm implements!
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.