Linked by Jon Atkinson on Tue 20th May 2003 18:14 UTC
I entered the world of Apple hardware about 3 months ago now, with a second-hand iBook2. It was a 500mHz, 256mb, ATI Rage 128 model, with a standard CD-Rom drive. I spent the first few days trying to tweak Mac OS X to my liking, then a few further weeks installing and learning to use the applications I thought I'd need. Chimera, BBEdit, the developer tools, even the Fink X server so I could use Gaim.
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Simple little things can kill your computing morale; I don't want to watch an icon bouncing up and down while an application starts; I want those extra cycles put to use to make said application start faster in the first place.
I can't believe how many times I hear idiots complaining about "bouncing icons" as if it's some horrible flaw in the overall design of OS X.
Don't like the bouncing icons? System Preferences > Dock > Uncheck "Animate opening applications"
Now, was that so hard? The bouncing icon will now be replaced by a pulsating arrow to indicate the application is loading.
KDE has similarly useless eyecandy. It's just off per default. Window Maker has it, other window managers and desktop environments have it. I don't see the problem with OS X having it, eveing having it on per default, especially when it's so easy to turn off.
Of course, knowing the utilitarian zealots who most frequently argue agains OS X, their window manager of choice is most likely twm, a symptom of their pointless quest to eek every last possible CPU cycle out of their system so their IRC clients run with optimum efficiency.