"Ary Manzana" <a...@esperanto.org.ar> wrote in message news:jpfll9$a1h$1...@digitalmars.com... > On 5/22/12 3:41 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: >> On 2012-05-22 09:50, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> >>> See, that must be the problem, I only like crazy insane stuff ;) >>> >>> I actually did spend about a year using an OSX machine as my primary >>> system, >>> and was even impressed *at first*. Then I grew to hate it (It's now >>> sitting, >>> totally dead, six feet behind me). >> >> When was that, around which version of Mac OS X? >>
Mostly 10.2. And then people told me "You have to upgrade to 10.3! It's sooo much better!" Me: "Yea, you said the same about 10.2, asshole. When I made the mistake of believing you that time, I blew $100 just to add (remove?) stripes from the dock's background and make the kernel panics prettier. Oh, yea, and make SMB slightly less broken - that was the killer feature." Hundred dollars for a damn point release. Bah. MS would have called it a service pack and given it away. By the time 10.4 rolled around, the stupid machine had already died anyway. > I feel like OSX (and Mac's hardware) got almost everything right. It makes > you more productive, even if you are a developer. Every single thing about it either got in my way or slowed me down (And that's when it was actually working right.) The mouse (every single one Apple's ever made - I quickly replaced the nearly-useless Apple mouse with a Microsoft one), the sluggish mouse acceleration no matter how you tweaked it (need a mousepad the size of Rhode Island), windows that can't figure out where the dock is and decide to partially hide behind it, the dock which conflates running apps with non-running ones (opps, that's right: there's a *teeny* *tiny* little...uhh...triangle to show you the difference), every view offered in finder (they were all awful and barely-usable, even the one I was initally very excited about), the being a barely-upgradable *desktop* machine, the IDE controller that died and took the HDD with it (before the machine finally keeled over *completely*), the almost total lack of configurability on pretty much anything, the animations that do nothing but make you wait (at least *those* you could turn off, along with the dock icons that dodge the mouse whenever you try to point at them), the ultra window-mania for *individual* apps (ex: photoshop on mac actually behaved like GIMP - yea, there's an app known for having a good UI...), the compeltely modal menu bar that's not even connected to its own app (yea, I know it's signature "Mac", but it's still a bad design that only made sence on 13" screens with giant pixels), "error -274296" (yea, real helpful, jackass!), the web browser with ultra-blurry text ("It's to make it better match what the printer spits out!!" Really? Who the fuck does more web-browsing on hard-copy than on screen?). Ie, *Everything* about it. Idiotically-designed. Horrible, wretched little machine. My uncle loves the stupid things (since the monochrome days) and he's *constantly* wrestling with Apple over major hardware problems that they never seem to be able to resolve.