Say I want to use a start button.. I hit the windows key, I type the first three characters of the thing I want, maybe I need to hit up arrow once and I hit enter. Five key presses and I can run anything. What is the counterpart on OSX?
When I use a menu, I move the mouse to that menu and I click on the item. Why do I need to maximize screen space? It is mouse travel time that gets me efficiency of use. If it is a menu that I use often then I always keep that window visible. When I use OSX I have to first activate that window before I can do anything with the menu and then I must mouse to the menu. So this turns (mouse 5")(click) into (mouse 5")(click)(mouse 7")(click). Furthermore, the OSX menu has minimized it's entries to only those it thinks I want, but I use the menu usually to learn the most important hot keys so I don't have to use the menu at all. So I learn the hot keys much faster in Windows/Linux.
I really don't know what people mean when they say that OSX is more user friendly. All it does is put a severe limit on the number of menu options and other window elements in an effort to me more aesthetically pleasing. In turn this means more scrolling around and clicking to get the same thing done, and to me this is much much less efficient and therefore less user friendly, especially for someone in a field where they should be technologically savvy. If you find more UI elements too distracting to do your work then it is pills you need, not a streamlined OS.
But Apple has the best premium hardware, and I have had never had a Thinkpad that does things like this; even the $400 ones. Why would it occur to anyone that the issue might be faulty hardware?
Unless you make $12 an hour you need to be more effective than six. Try fifty or sixty. That said, the good news is that it is still doable. The bad news is that it probably doesn't matter anyway because even if fifty or sixty can do half the quality of you, most companies are still willing to pay for it. Yes it is that bad.
This is why my head explodes every time IT companies start complaining there is no IT talent. They started making their bed the instant they started increased tech productivity into profits.
Do you really think there is anything anyone could have done? Do you really think if we all collectively voted for the other candidate, ever, that things would have been any different?
So you are saying that the CEO of a company really puts in 800x the effort? Where does he get time for that 32,000 hour work week and still find time to perfect his golf swing?
Re the home and end buttons.. I thought that was just something very wrong with the way my keyboard was. I never know whether any given peripheral needs additional settings that I just don't know about. I find the laptop chicklet keyboard to be crap. The one on my thinkpad is ok (the key to it is really the trackpoint) but really I am most efficient with a clicky external keyboard having keys with a nice recess for my fingertips and a mouse. Don't even get me started on a Trackpad. I don't care if they have made all these special gestures that work with the OS.. they're all inefficient when my hands are on the keyboard 95% of the time, and gestures really only hit a relatively few set of global OS operations. No doubt someone will respond and tell me I'm just not doing it right.
Because in 99.99999% of linux environments I use, when I go to/home, my home directory is actually there. After typing/ho a million times your fingers kind of do it automatically. Also, it's nice to actually be able to write a shell script and have an icon for it that works.
On the other hand, many of us hate the hipster faggots who are absolutely convinced that the two dual 30 inch displays proudly displayed on their desk have ANYTHING to do with productivity.
As I was reading your comment it occurred to me that I almost feel like I'm tip toeing around when I use OSX. Mostly because it always wants to be pretty I think, rather than just letting me get my hands dirty. Funny that you call Linux the fragile one, when it is OSX I have to tip toe with.
We bought my kids some nice bluetooth headphones for christmas. One of them uses a macbook for Minecraft and another uses linux for Minecraft. No issues pairing linux and we were up and playing in 10 mins. On the macbook the kid played for awhile and then asked why the sound lagged behind further and further as time went on. I found a long message thread of people BEGGING for Apple to fix the issue. It went on around a year. Fortunately it was fixed by the time we needed it and I just installed a patch but YEESH...
Wow.. even with the glitches I experience from time to time in my Linux desktop it still doesn't quite match the cheese grater to the testicles I feel when I use OSX. Like seriously, force people to mouse to the top of the screen every time they want to use a menu function?? The 80's are embarrassed they never caught on.
Apple forces people to use OSX for development.. so I'm kind of surprised this is news. Good on Linux that this is even something to talk about.
Personally, I develop the full application stack and I use OSX for iOS and Linux for everything else. I'm not really sure why Linux feels more efficient, maybe because I grew up with windows.
That's just it.. so much investment on tech that has yet to show any signs of being practical in the real world. They're driving into buses at 2 MPH for crying out loud, IN PERFECT WEATHER.
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Say I want to use a start button.. I hit the windows key, I type the first three characters of the thing I want, maybe I need to hit up arrow once and I hit enter. Five key presses and I can run anything. What is the counterpart on OSX?
When I use a menu, I move the mouse to that menu and I click on the item. Why do I need to maximize screen space? It is mouse travel time that gets me efficiency of use. If it is a menu that I use often then I always keep that window visible. When I use OSX I have to first activate that window before I can do anything with the menu and then I must mouse to the menu. So this turns (mouse 5")(click) into (mouse 5")(click)(mouse 7")(click). Furthermore, the OSX menu has minimized it's entries to only those it thinks I want, but I use the menu usually to learn the most important hot keys so I don't have to use the menu at all. So I learn the hot keys much faster in Windows/Linux.
I really don't know what people mean when they say that OSX is more user friendly. All it does is put a severe limit on the number of menu options and other window elements in an effort to me more aesthetically pleasing. In turn this means more scrolling around and clicking to get the same thing done, and to me this is much much less efficient and therefore less user friendly, especially for someone in a field where they should be technologically savvy. If you find more UI elements too distracting to do your work then it is pills you need, not a streamlined OS.
But Apple has the best premium hardware, and I have had never had a Thinkpad that does things like this; even the $400 ones. Why would it occur to anyone that the issue might be faulty hardware?
Also, let's not forget restaurants that are basically cooking food on the street and with food filled with paper. Is that what we want?
Except we're talking about a NATIONAL issue here, not a global issue. The poster is correct in referring to the national 1%.
Unless you make $12 an hour you need to be more effective than six. Try fifty or sixty. That said, the good news is that it is still doable. The bad news is that it probably doesn't matter anyway because even if fifty or sixty can do half the quality of you, most companies are still willing to pay for it. Yes it is that bad.
This is why my head explodes every time IT companies start complaining there is no IT talent. They started making their bed the instant they started increased tech productivity into profits.
Do you really think there is anything anyone could have done? Do you really think if we all collectively voted for the other candidate, ever, that things would have been any different?
So you are saying that the CEO of a company really puts in 800x the effort? Where does he get time for that 32,000 hour work week and still find time to perfect his golf swing?
This. THIS THIS THIS THIS. Trump is a con artist business man. Trump is a con artist business man. Trump is a con artist business man.
Like, SERIOUSLY, THIS.
Re the home and end buttons.. I thought that was just something very wrong with the way my keyboard was. I never know whether any given peripheral needs additional settings that I just don't know about. I find the laptop chicklet keyboard to be crap. The one on my thinkpad is ok (the key to it is really the trackpoint) but really I am most efficient with a clicky external keyboard having keys with a nice recess for my fingertips and a mouse. Don't even get me started on a Trackpad. I don't care if they have made all these special gestures that work with the OS.. they're all inefficient when my hands are on the keyboard 95% of the time, and gestures really only hit a relatively few set of global OS operations. No doubt someone will respond and tell me I'm just not doing it right.
Because in 99.99999% of linux environments I use, when I go to /home, my home directory is actually there. After typing /ho a million times your fingers kind of do it automatically. Also, it's nice to actually be able to write a shell script and have an icon for it that works.
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Yes. Those three applications work flawlessly.
And watching porn 24x7 pretty much means you won't see a penis smaller than yours. Seriously? Power to weight ratio??
On the other hand, many of us hate the hipster faggots who are absolutely convinced that the two dual 30 inch displays proudly displayed on their desk have ANYTHING to do with productivity.
I choose windows, because cygwin actually manages to be closer to standard unix than OSX does.
If that were the case, wouldn't OSX be the red car? I mean, if any OS of the three is made for looks.. just saying.
As I was reading your comment it occurred to me that I almost feel like I'm tip toeing around when I use OSX. Mostly because it always wants to be pretty I think, rather than just letting me get my hands dirty. Funny that you call Linux the fragile one, when it is OSX I have to tip toe with.
We bought my kids some nice bluetooth headphones for christmas. One of them uses a macbook for Minecraft and another uses linux for Minecraft. No issues pairing linux and we were up and playing in 10 mins. On the macbook the kid played for awhile and then asked why the sound lagged behind further and further as time went on. I found a long message thread of people BEGGING for Apple to fix the issue. It went on around a year. Fortunately it was fixed by the time we needed it and I just installed a patch but YEESH...
Wow.. even with the glitches I experience from time to time in my Linux desktop it still doesn't quite match the cheese grater to the testicles I feel when I use OSX. Like seriously, force people to mouse to the top of the screen every time they want to use a menu function?? The 80's are embarrassed they never caught on.
Apple forces people to use OSX for development.. so I'm kind of surprised this is news. Good on Linux that this is even something to talk about.
Personally, I develop the full application stack and I use OSX for iOS and Linux for everything else. I'm not really sure why Linux feels more efficient, maybe because I grew up with windows.
And governments were always supposed to serve the best interests of the citizens of the nations that they governed, not their corporate masters.
That's just it.. so much investment on tech that has yet to show any signs of being practical in the real world. They're driving into buses at 2 MPH for crying out loud, IN PERFECT WEATHER.