Note: [AK] = Apple Key
The Finder sucks!!
Applications are stored in the /Applications folder and its very easy to navigate to that parent folder by pressing [AK]+[SHIFT]+[A]. The /Applications/Utilities folder is [AK]+[SHIFT]+[U]. To go to your Home folder press [AK]+[SHIFT[+[H]. These key combinations are easy to remember and use.
Problem is... the Finder must be active for those keystrokes to work!!! And that is a HUGE handicap. You can’t be in, say, Firefox and quickly jump to the file system. In windows it is an enormous advantage to be able to press [Start]+[E] or [Start]+[R] and browse the file system!!
The Dock is no substitute for the Windows Start Menu. It takes up an obscene amount of vertical space and the user customisable icon locations makes no real sense. There is no text to describe each icon unless you hover the mouse over the icon and pause there. Currently running applications are marked with a little black triangle on the dock which is no way visually as appealing as the Task Bar’s
Contrast this to windows where Start->Programs has everything you need. Programs are logically located in alphabetical order and menu items can include lots of little extras like additional apps and tools and Help files and READMEs. The Wndows task bar shits all over the Dock when it comes to determing which apps are currently running. Add to that the combination of [CTRL]+[SHIFT]+[ESC] (which brings up the Task Manager) and you can kill any rogue apps quickly. The QuickStart bar on the Taskbar allows you to place every day icons like Outlook and Firefox for very quick access.
Applications that install a dozen icons are easily accessible on the Start Menu. Simply press the START key and hover your mouse over Programs!! With Mac OS X you have to switch back to the Finder, press [AK]+[SHIFT]+[A] and then double click, say, Microsoft Office, and then doubleclick Powerpoint.
Give me back my CD/DVD
In Windows I cannot remember the last time my optical drive swallowed my CD or DVD media and refused to eject it. Why do most Macs not have an eject button on the drive/tower faceplate?
When a CD/DVD media gets stuck, pressing the [EJECT] key on the keyboard does not work!! At the Terminal prompt, executing ‘drutil tray eject’ does not always work either, even if you have a burner. I’ve been told to restart the computer and hold down the right mouse button. What a joke: why must I close all my open browser tabs and documents and apps just to remove a CD? Why, oh why, is it so easy to get a CD stuck in the drive? All I did was browse the contents of the disc and now the sytem won’t let me have the disc back. This is not enterprise quality!!
HOME and END
In the Windows world pressing [HOME] takes you to the beginning of the line and [END] takes you to the position of the last text character. On the Mac, some apps do this, but many don’t. WTF?!?!?!? Instead I have to use 2 hands to press [AK]+[Left] or [Right Cursor]. Not friendly at all.
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Wow for someone who pretends to know a lot, you don't know very much. By the way "Tiger" had nothing to do with your disc getting stuck, nor had it anything to do with the lack of an eject button on the disc drive. Whiners like you should stick with windows, because obviously windows is such a flawless product. Thanks for the totally subjective piece, and for the sake of everyone living on this planet, don't ever review anything.
To the Mac bigot who has just replied: sorry, you are an idiot. Many other user interfaces such as Fedora, Ubuntu, KDE, etc are similar to Windows because the Windows way makes more sense. Recently you can find Linux user interfaces resembling Mac OS X; this is just an attempt to get more 'average' users on the Linux boat, by offering them a 'cool' user interface.
You wanna hear an unreal fantasy? well actually this is more so a literal reality from which i try to dissociate due to all the stress. i have had root canals less painful than working with this system as of late. i'm not just complaining for its own sake, i'm maybe hoping to incur some possible insight. heres the deal: bought this comp in 07, pretty recent....well last week, it began erasing/opening/moving things on its own, without me touching it, kinda like a bug or virus perhaps. however, i would restart each time, and upon doing so the problem for which i did that has been taken care of, only to exert NEW problems in its place. so, just spent about $300 for a new hard drive, and other like items. for this investment, the computer not only has the same sporadic problems as before, but entirely new ones. this is what i call the nightmare of my existence....ie, after establishing 2 admin accounts for myself, i am logged on to both at the same time, somehow...and can't actually access preferences or trash or any other normal tasks because each account is held back in permissions by the other one...like a total catch-22. i get error messages all the time, im told that certain things cannot be modified, etc. they know me at the mac store now, which is kinda sad.n but yea, thats my story thus far, but the saga may continue...
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