I always thought that Macs would be easy to use, especially the new OS X. So when I had the opportunity to try it out in an Apple shop, I was disappointed at how hard it was to do anything. I tried several things, and on different occasions, but it was not as intuitive as Apple's advertising makes out.
I concluded that Ubuntu was considerably easier to use and far more intuitive, as well as being cheaper! David King Simon Wears wrote: > I'm very uncomfortable using Apple computers. My friend bought one > about 2 years ago, I still struggle to use it. It seems to try to be > different so much, it becomes a little unusable (in my opinion). Case > example is (again, 2 years ago) I started college. My girlfriend is an > artist, and had to do some work in Photoshop. She took me up to the > art computers to help her get used to it, and I was utterly confused > about how to even OPEN Photoshop! Then, getting the pictures from her > camera was a pain, so we decided to close the program. I couldn't even > work out how to do that... > > When people ask me about getting a Mac, I often tell them to instead > bring their laptop in sometime, and I could give them Ubuntu, meaning > they get increased performance, better security, an OS that would do > everything they needed, and wouldnt have to spend £1000 on a Mac. > Ubuntu is (obviously) not Windows, but people who come use my computer > get how to do everything instantly from never having even heard of > Linux before. The most anyone has every been lost is by acidentally > switching to another desktop and thinking everything closed. > > I think Ubuntu is so much nicer to switch to, it takes very few brain > cells. > > 2009/1/16 Sean Miller <s...@seanmiller.net <mailto:s...@seanmiller.net>> > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Simon Wears > <munkyju...@googlemail.com <mailto:munkyju...@googlemail.com>> wrote: > > Usually I am wary of tempting people to switch, but since it's > my mum I know > > Ubuntu will do exactly what she needs without any hiccups (well, > non I can > > think of) since all she does is type up work things, and check > her emails / > > look for holidays online. And I have to do all the technical > work at home > > anyway, her switching would just mean I can actually say 'just > type this and > > hit enter' rather than try remember how to do everything on Windows. > > True!! > > Anybody else find the rabid desire to be different from Apple to be > distinctly disconcerting?? > > Having grown up in a Unix/VT220 environment to find that there is no > ctrl key and everything is done differently is, to say the least, > rather "alien". I mean, ctrl-c to cancel... been there since time and > memorium... how come Steve Jobs gets to redefine it? > > Means that when folks ask me about switching to Macs, which people > seem to increasingly do, I am rather jaded. I accept their positives > but I also am befuddled as to why they seem to have created for their > converts such a steep learning curve, forcing them to throw out > everything they are used to and buy into a completely different > regime. > > Sean > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com <mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > > > > -- > Simon Wears > > munkyju...@gmail.com | http://MunkyJunky.com > Manchester Metropolitan University Computing Student -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
