Linked by Adam S on Mon 3rd Apr 2006 14:55 UTC
In my house today, all of the computers are Macs. This is a long way away from three and a half year ago, when I said that Jaguar could not replace my PC. We're chugging along happily running Tiger, just as productive as before, and enjoying every bit of eye candy. But OS X isn't always cherry pie, it's got its own set of faults, and some can be downright annoying. UPDATED
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2005-07-18
Most of the problems you have and what 'MS gets right that MAC OS X does not' is simply a matter of what you are used to. Of course they are two different Operating Systems that take different approaches to the same problem: how to run a system for the user and it's interface.
1) Mounting & Unmounting
That the Finder chokes up is a problem. That you have to unmount is not (even in XP it is preferable that you tell the system to 'unplug' but I have yet to encounter a problem because of it)
2) Media Browsing
Their own approach to it. MS loads a lot of things at start up, their viewer being one of them. I find it odd in 5 that you complain about the always on aspect of a program in Mac OSX unless you cmnd+q and don't see the irony of things running when you have not even told them to start. It makes it easier for the user if the user may not have a viewer application installed. OSX just takes a different approach.
5) Closing apps
This is purely a different approach to the applications that OSX takes. I'm sure Mac users are annoyed that they have to reload an app when they press the 'x' and wish it remained resident until told not to.