Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 13th Aug 2008 23:50 UTC
An interesting article has been making its way around the internet the past few days, titled "Top 10 Usability Highs Of Mac OS". Mac OS X indeed does some things very, very right, just like many other operating systems and graphical environments do some things very, very right. The issue with the list of the article in question is that many of the items on the list are not exactly examples of "Usability Highs" at all.
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Some of the metaphors are only intuitive once you've been shown them. The drag-and-drop installer is one of those. Completely baffled me, but of course it's so obvious *once you've been shown*. Same goes for dragging a device into the trash to eject it.
I've been using a Mac for a year, and found the transition from KDE quite difficult. However, I absolutely love the interface now that I'm used to it. There's almost a sense of 'feeling' your way with the interface.
There's just one usability issue I can't get past: Mac OS has nothing equivalent to Konqueror/KIO parts. For home use that's no biggie, but for systems admin work, Linux/KDE is essential.