Moth goes Mac
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- Scotch_Roman0
PCs are straightforward? I must have my ass on backwards then.
- PCs are coldly logical, inhuman things. Which is what data, and therefore information, is.Nairn
- Macs are like irritating noobs who assume you know what you want, and suggest complete irrelevancies.Nairn
- 'assume they know what you want'. I shouldn't bother trying to make smart ass points if I can't deliver 'em properly.Nairn
- I have so much work to do.
What the fuck am i doing here?Nairn - they're not anymore, they're fully configurable for all the nerd pleasureraf
- ********0
TEXTMATE MOTHERFUCKER!
ARGUMENT OVER
- ********0
you big pussy
- juhls0
Moth, have at 'em.
- ********0
So basically, as a mac user, you all use all these third-party plugins to make it usable? I can only presume that because you can help me - there must be something extremely lacking in this OS.
There's some other stuff too.
Like I've minimised a bunch of stuff, but when I "apple-tab" back to the application in question, it doesn't maximise it's windows back into view.... What's the point of that?
- Nobody minimizes on the Mac from what I see, it was a lame attempt to copy Win behaviour.raf
- I modified Leopard A LOT. I'm not sure if that means Tiger was better, or if Apple itself has some issues.juhls
- it does if you click on it in the dock, apple tab is only for dodgin between applications which are 'active'chossy
- USE HIDE YOU CUNT********
- no, people use all sorts of apps to make it behave like another OS, because people resist changeacescence
- well use your fucking head, its because Mac OSX doesn't start a new session everytime you open a document in the applictaionElfangio
- So, when you cmd+tab and go to that application you might want to just get the application and NOT THE DOCUMENT two diferent thinks!!!!Elfangio
- ********0
Yes, you're right.
- raf0
Get Tinker Tool and/or Onyx - kind of like TweakUI for Windows
- chossy0
Just fucking sit down and learn how to use the new computer you got ye mad dick, you don't buy a different car and then say this is shit cause it's nothing like my other one you sit and work out how to use it. Stop being a mongo and learn stuff.
- raf0
Macs used to be those preconfigured, easy to use computers for everyone, they were set up to be smarter than the user. Geeks and devs hated them for it.
Apple redesigned the whole thing to run on BSD/Unix, now the system can be configured in million ways via terminal. It can be used right out of the box or customized to every geek liking. Most of these config apps are just wrappers for these pref commands.
..and you're still not satisfied? :D
- ********0
But chossy - it's like the new car was parked in Glasgow and it's had it's wheels removed and some cunt stole the steering wheel.
- chossy0
No it isnae, it's 'different', for all your complaints there are just as many perhaps more reasons why it is good.
- ian0
"Stop being a mongo and learn stuff."
And this here is why I love chossy.
- Meeklo0
I'm sorry.. who?
- ********0
it is truly quite amazing how many more of you people will spend time typing up a defense of a machine than will get involved in crits, design discussions, or anything else (with the exception of lol cats and tits) on this board.
moth, bootcamp.
- kelpie0
to be honest, both OS have their problems, I agree with Moth in some ways, and hate Win in others. I don't think I've ever used anything I considered to be 100% good though eh?
lol@chossy's contribution, golden mate, golden :D
- ********0
Haven't tried looking at tits yet Skt. "Spaces" might work there though - small - medium - large....
- ********0
The Finder really is a piece of shit.
The file-save dialogue doesn't respond to key-clicks. I'm saving images from PS and want to overwrite existing files, but the finder wont let me hit 't' - for finding the file 'top_header.gif' in a looong list for example.
I want to fling this shit out of the window. Fucked if I'm paying more money for a fucking third-party fix for this shit.
- sigg0
LOL@moth. I hear your pain as I'm in the same position, but I recently have been forced into the OPPOSITE of you. I'm going from 10+ years of Mac to a shitbox PC.
- How in the fuck do I set ALL of my folders to display in a list (none of this XP bullshit giant icon display thank you) alphabetical A-Z?
- Why the hell are the menu's at the top of the window and not the top of the screen? I go to hit "File" and my mouse zips past it 12 times before finally landing on it so I can click. On a mac I can just 'flip' the mouse to the upper left and be within a few pixels of where I want to be.
- HOW IN GOD'S NAME DO I TURN OFF THIS NIPPLE THAT'S IN BETWEEN THE 'G' AND THE 'H'?!? on this laptop? For 5 days my cursor has been inadvertantly zipping all over the screen and I just figured out it's because as I type my fingers hit this stupid thing and it shoots the cursor off mark.
- How do I default to "Folder View" and not that shitty blue gradient picture structure crap that does me no good on the left side of the open folder? I want to see the structure with arrows next to folders that contain content. Now the folders don't differentiate themselves from one another when one is full of files and another is not. So I click on one that has nothing in it and WFT I click out to go back having to use the fucking back button. This is unacceptable.
- Is there a dock or do I have to go to the Start menu every fucking time I want to open something? Don't tell me I have to drag shit onto the desktop as an alias then click on that to open it. I WANT MY FUCKING DOCK BACK OF APPLICATIONS I USE EVERYDAY!
- start/all programs >.... enough said. Can't I have a quickly accessed folder in a dock that opens up to show me all my available applications?
- Local Disk (C):/WINDOWS "Sorry, we're hiding all this content from you, if you came all this way to oh, I dunno, actually see the content of this folder then go ahead and click here to see what's in it. I mean heck, we don't think you clicked all this way to actually see anything in this folder anyways so we're not going to show you."
