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Nerds Switching from Apple to Ubuntu?
Mindpicnic writes "The recent switch of two lifelong Mac nerds to Ubuntu hasn't escaped Tim O'Reilly's radar. He cites Jason Kottke: 'If I were Apple, I'd be worried about this. Two lifelong Mac fans are switching away from Macs to PCs running Ubuntu Linux: first it was Mark Pilgrim and now Cory Doctorow. Nerds are a small demographic, but they can also be the canary in the coal mine with stuff like this.'"
Actually I am only 27 but I feel old since my first two computers had chips developed near the time of my birth. I started out on an Apple IIe. Then went to an 8088. I used Winblows PC's until Mandrake 9, then moved to Slack 10 and now run FC5. Side by side with my Slack 10 box was an OS X eMac which I have to say I loved. Now all this Unbutu Linux talk intrigues me and I might slap a copy on my old beater box and play around with it.
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Well, there was that one puppy, but he is all better now.
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I switched from Linux to OSX (for the desktop boxes) around 10.1. I don't really know why you'd put up with the warts of Linux as a desktop machine when OSX exists.
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The Finder's well-known to be almost total crap. However, so is your example. It's not even possible! In OS X, you can't manually layer the windows of different applications because bringing any of an application's windows to the foreground will bring the entire application forward. (I think iChat behaves differently under some circumstances, but that appears to be bug.)
If you use Cmd-Tab to switch between applications, or you click the Dock icon, it brings all windows of that application to the front. If you click a window with the mouse, only that individual window comes to the front. This behavior is consistent(ly inconsistent) across all apps I know of, including iChat.
Note that clicking the Dock icon will have the additional effect of, well, whatever the app wants to do. In most apps, if there's already a document window open, clicking the Dock icon will only bring the app to the front. If no documents are open, it will open a new window (whatever Cmd-N would normally do). In Mail, clicking the Dock icon opens a new viewer window if there isn't one open already, regardless of whether there are any other windows (e.g. messages) open. In QuickTime Player, nothing happens.
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