Comments on: Mac OS X Not For Me

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:50:35 +0000

yeah, this was made in 06 and all these problems are still there. As a new mac owner I don\’t know how people put up with this bullshit. I agree with you that some points are just great, for example, program uninstalls are fantastic. There are many other things are that cool. But by and far, OS X just doesn\’t make sense. Many of the decisions apple made just have no logic at all.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:50:35 +0000

yeah, this was made in 06 and all these problems are still there. As a new mac owner I don’t know how people put up with this bullshit. I agree with you that some points are just great, for example, program uninstalls are fantastic. There are many other things are that cool. But by and far, OS X just doesn’t make sense. Many of the decisions apple made just have no logic at all.

By: orta

orta — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:17:36 +0000

As I now too have a desktop I have to use the mouse, but to be honest I’ve had no problems with all the default settings, I did turn on the second and third mouse buttons on my mighty mouse. I don’t see the acceleration as being a problem for me.

Keyboard and Shortcuts/Hotkeys
Your used to different hotkeys, I could be pissy and say that obviously the command + X shortcuts came well before the ctrl ones did and that of course you adapt to it if you’re a switcher.

Windows and Dock
With OS X apple realised there is two types of apps. Documents apps and not. For example a text editor is a document app, you can have about 50 of them and it will only show one icon on the left half of the dock, with 50 documents on the right. Something like iPhoto which you’d only have one instance open closes when you hit the close button. This is half intuitive, of the people I’ve helped switch I’ve generally just showed them to close an app by the menu or command-q. But as a power user it makes perfect sense for saving desktop space. (A good use of this is iTunes, where you can close the actual window but the program will carry on playing, saving ram for the gui)

Anyway, give it another try sometime, and feel free to ask me questions in IRC!

By: orta

orta — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:17:36 +0000

As I now too have a desktop I have to use the mouse, but to be honest I've had no problems with all the default settings, I did turn on the second and third mouse buttons on my mighty mouse. I don't see the acceleration as being a problem for me.

Keyboard and Shortcuts/Hotkeys
Your used to different hotkeys, I could be pissy and say that obviously the command + X shortcuts came well before the ctrl ones did and that of course you adapt to it if you're a switcher.

Windows and Dock
With OS X apple realised there is two types of apps. Documents apps and not. For example a text editor is a document app, you can have about 50 of them and it will only show one icon on the left half of the dock, with 50 documents on the right. Something like iPhoto which you'd only have one instance open closes when you hit the close button. This is half intuitive, of the people I've helped switch I've generally just showed them to close an app by the menu or command-q. But as a power user it makes perfect sense for saving desktop space. (A good use of this is iTunes, where you can close the actual window but the program will carry on playing, saving ram for the gui)

Anyway, give it another try sometime, and feel free to ask me questions in IRC!