We're certainly not done yet with Snow Leopard on OSNews! The operating system will be officially released tomorrow, but that hasn't stopped various news outlets from cranking out reviews of Apple's latest big cat. As usual, the reviews are fairly consistent: this latest release is the best yet. In addition, very welcome news for Tiger users: the Snow Leopard "upgrade" disk can upgrade Tiger installations too, and performs no checks to see if Leopard is installed.
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Member since:2006-05-18
Cut is just the tip of the iceberg. If you are interested you can read the thread linked in my first post. And Finder is the tip of the iceberg in my OS X 6 month experience.
I could rant for hours about the little annoyances in every Apple application and the OS itself. It's like Apple just has to make all the things different than everybody else whether it makes sense or not.
Switching to Windows was mainly a matter of getting things done instead of fighting with your computer. That said, I'd rather use Windows 98 or Ubuntu 4.10 than go back to OS X.
Member since:2005-07-03
I read the thread and I found your suggestions interesting and would love to see those, but none other OS X user I've met decided that OS X was so bad they needed to use either Windows 98 or Ubuntu to "get things done". You only have a 6-month OS X experience, that means you have yet to explore the whole OS experience. I took me more than two years to fully unleash it.
I don't know what "work you can't get done" under OSX, I have never seen an OS less intrusive. I have a small company, I code under Windows XP/Vista/7 using Visual Studio. I maintain three linux servers and use a Mac Pro for daily work (VMWare/Parallels for windows work). I haven't felt the reason to move back to Windows 98 (?) nor Linux.
Again, I think you have too much previous OS experience and don't want to relearn what your new OS offers you. OS X is not for everyone, but I come from a Windows world and I found a way to discover OS X (I started in Jaguar go figure). I lived thorough horrible Samba support, PPC, slow finder hangs, etc., however, the whole OS X experience has been superior to anything Windows ever offered me.
Go back to windows 98, and make sure you use 98SE, else you won't be able to use your USB devices.
Skip Windows Millenium, it had lots of bugs.
Member since:2006-04-03
Your comments arrogantly suggest that Apple should change the way they have always done things - in other words the way that Mac users (some of us have been using Macs since the original) are used to operating - in order to implement something that you would like to use.
You've chosen to use Windows because you like the way it does those things, and that's great for you, but please don't try to tell those of us who have been using the desktop / finder system since the original Mac that we should change because you don't like it. The Finder isn't by any means perfect, but for every annoyance it has there is at least one corresponding annoyance in Windows (or indeed whatever dedicated file manager you care to name). It all comes back to the user's preferences, and I can't wait to get my legit copy of Snowy today.
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Member since:2006-01-18
I could rant for hours about the little annoyances in every Apple application and the OS itself. It's like Apple just has to make all the things different than everybody else whether it makes sense or not.
Actually apple was first (well xerox was) so everyone else did it different than apple ;-)
But seriously the keyboard shortcuts for instance have been mostly there since day zero. Microsoft tried to copy them but in a matter that they do not look like copies.
The same goes for various other aspects in the OS. The dock for instance stems straight from NextStep and it was there at a time no one else hat something similar.
The list could go on. I have been using a mac for 2 years day in day out, and those so called little annoyances usually are exactly those things everyone else copied from apple. The things Apple has copied from everyone else usually do the same.
But why should apple adjust? There are millions of users who instantly would make an outcry if just one keyboard shortcut changes.
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2005-07-03
If you don't like finder, use another alternative, like PathFinder. Is not that one is using finder to move files exclusively. If your work consists of moving files only, I can see why you're so frustrated… but Finder is not the cause!
Search with spotlight, have some smart folders, smart mailboxes, smart playlists, etc. Man, I don't even use Explorer while in windows. If you're a true keyboard person, you use Launchbar or similar (thus, no finder needed), like I do.
Whem I am lazy about the keyboard only and just wanna use the mouse, Spring Folders + Expose + etc., surpass any Windows Explorer, Thunar, Gnome FileManager, etc. I've seen.
It sounds to me that you're a user who hasn't taken into account all the other tools your OS offers you. (It happened to me before).
Rethink your flow of work the way your OS offers you and only then you will start appreciating it.
Using Windows just because finder doesn't do Cut is as ridiculous as saying I use a car because I have to park it when not in use… Windows may have advantages but I could cite way more reasons why I simply don't use it as my primarily OS.
If finder has lived without Cut for all these years, it's clearly not a show-stopper ('tho it would be great to have it, I admit, but back to point one, how many times a month do I need to cut/paste a file: One. Maybe less).