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What Mac OS X Could Learn From Windows

Posted by timothy on from the how-to-humiliate-and-belittle-users dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It is almost unheard of to see something written about what OS X could learn from Windows but this details some good examples. And yes, it includes the right-click mouse." I find about half the suggestions compelling enough to be worth griping over, and the other half off-base, but YMMV.

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  1. You mean the bottom right corner? by rebug · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think the idea is that your cursor doesn't change into a dozen different zany pictures and adopt a dozen different functions depending on which part of the window you're pointing at.

    It's all about simplicity.

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  2. Re:How about a fast way to lock the computer? by Jord · · Score: 4, Informative

    Go into your keychain and turn on the menubar addon. Then you can lock your screen with two clicks of your one-button mouse.

    Simple.

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  3. OS X already allows remapping of control keys by EccentricAnomaly · · Score: 4, Informative

    From article: Switching between Mac and Windows this drives me nuts. I have to consciously think "command-C or control-C?" It shouldn't have to be that way. And if you're running RDC or VPC and copying and pasting between OS X and Windows!! Sheesh!

    If you really must do this, you can do it in 'system preferences'. Just go to the 'Keyboard & Mouse' pref pane and click the modifier keys button. voila! switch control and option or whatever else you want.

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  4. Make FINDER **CLEAN** to use.. by torpor · · Score: 3, Informative

    What i hate about the Finder is when you open a view of a Folder using "View As List", and then have to manually tweak the window size in order to fit the list details in that view.

    With Windows Explorer, you can hit Control-Numpad+ and it will automatically do a little jig for you to get all the content revealed in your window .. and it will resize the list view columns as well, so that the data just fits nicely.

    I desperately need this feature in Finder .. why isn't Finder smart enough to adjust the Detail columns according to the metrics of the data being displayed? Seems to me I could fix it with Applescript, but damn .. I wish Finder just moved itself around to conform to your window setting..

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