The GUI really, really doesn't feel natural for me (I would say I feel most natural with KDE at the moment).
I find majority GUI effects annoying because they slow down the computer when I'm doing intensive work and they're distracting. Disabling them all under Windows, KDE etc. very easy. On OS X, I need to download tweaking applications, shadow killer and even then, it won't disable all the annoying effects.
The OS generally feels less responsive on the hardware than running Kubuntu or Windows XP on the same hardware (hardware is not Vista ready), which I find very irritating.
I'm not trying to be an apple apologist, but these issues are perceptual. I mean, it's fine and valid for you to not like the system for these things, but they're not failings of the system, they're just counter to your preferences/perceptions.
I am generally told to expect OS X to 'just work' on so many levels. So it really doesn't impress me when the OS just kernel panics when I connect a standard bluetooth device that works under Windows and Linux out of the box.
Unless you've replicated this error with multiple devices on multiple machines, I'd have to say this is specific to your setup. Either your device or Mac hardware is futzed (I don't know if that's a word, but I'm going for it). I have never encountered this with any bluetooth/Mac combo I've encountered. I'd get it checked out. It should 'just work' - if it doesn't, there's a reason why.
As for the rest, yeah, I've had my own set of similar unresolved issues.
- Pre-10.4 VPN implementation was atrocious.
- The fact that I can't control whether the system uses anti-aliasing or not drives me batty.
- The desktop grid - would it be so hard to put in a user configurable desktop grid function so I can resize the damn thing? Or at least build in a few options - wide, medium, tight? Or better yet, give me a system preference that shows the grid superimposed on my desktop/finder window and lets me drag the lines around.
Even with all that though, I still find, in general, I spend less time thinking about my system in OSX. It behaves pretty much as expected. Hopefully that doesn't change too much with 10.5:)
Imports and exports Word documents, is fast for large documents, has excellent formatting and organization options, fairly inexpensive. I'm goofy about it.
Actually I could see a free-download/one month trial having more problems than it is worth. Distribution obviously, but more importantly, if they haven't invested their $50, how commited will they be to slugging it through to where they think it might get better? If I've invested $50 in a game, you can be damn sure I'm going to play it for a few months just to get my money's worth, regardless of how much I may be enjoying it.
If I got it for free, I feel no such compulsion. I may decide it doesn't run as well as I hoped, or I've seen the cool stuff I wanted to, or 'some jerk ganked me and I hate this crap', or 'I don't have time right now' and end up never coming back to it because something newer and more shiny has come out.
That $50 pays a good chunk of distribution and throws a nickel or two at development, but the most important thing it buys is commitment.
Nope. Pissing about with petrol has well defined, clear and apparent risks. Flying into an incredibly unstable country to profiteer as a representative of a hated army of occupation has well defined, clear and apparent risks.
I question the intelligence of anyone who does either. I don't laugh at either of them.
Getting decapitated when going to Iraq is not a foregone conclusion. Getting fried when you let your friend hit you with a napalm-filled glass tube is. Unless you think that you could do it...
People should know that someone going to work as a civilian contractor in Iraq runs the risk of kidnap and decapitation by terrorists.
That does not mean that it is funny when it happens.
If they do it willingly? Hilarious.
If you want to use this analogy, you need to find a civilian contractor who thinks it's a good idea to decapitate himself and film it. Because, you know, it couldn't possibly hurt.
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- The GUI really, really doesn't feel natural for me (I would say I feel most natural with KDE at the moment).
- I find majority GUI effects annoying because they slow down the computer when I'm doing intensive work and they're distracting. Disabling them all under Windows, KDE etc. very easy. On OS X, I need to download tweaking applications, shadow killer and even then, it won't disable all the annoying effects.
- The OS generally feels less responsive on the hardware than running Kubuntu or Windows XP on the same hardware (hardware is not Vista ready), which I find very irritating.
I'm not trying to be an apple apologist, but these issues are perceptual. I mean, it's fine and valid for you to not like the system for these things, but they're not failings of the system, they're just counter to your preferences/perceptions. I am generally told to expect OS X to 'just work' on so many levels. So it really doesn't impress me when the OS just kernel panics when I connect a standard bluetooth device that works under Windows and Linux out of the box.Unless you've replicated this error with multiple devices on multiple machines, I'd have to say this is specific to your setup. Either your device or Mac hardware is futzed (I don't know if that's a word, but I'm going for it). I have never encountered this with any bluetooth/Mac combo I've encountered. I'd get it checked out. It should 'just work' - if it doesn't, there's a reason why.
As for the rest, yeah, I've had my own set of similar unresolved issues.
- Pre-10.4 VPN implementation was atrocious.
- The fact that I can't control whether the system uses anti-aliasing or not drives me batty.
- The desktop grid - would it be so hard to put in a user configurable desktop grid function so I can resize the damn thing? Or at least build in a few options - wide, medium, tight? Or better yet, give me a system preference that shows the grid superimposed on my desktop/finder window and lets me drag the lines around.
Even with all that though, I still find, in general, I spend less time thinking about my system in OSX. It behaves pretty much as expected. Hopefully that doesn't change too much with 10.5 :)
Not unless they're cassette tapes Rip Van Winkle.
For another Mac Word alternative, take a look at Mellel http://www.redlers.com/
Imports and exports Word documents, is fast for large documents, has excellent formatting and organization options, fairly inexpensive. I'm goofy about it.
Actually I could see a free-download/one month trial having more problems than it is worth. Distribution obviously, but more importantly, if they haven't invested their $50, how commited will they be to slugging it through to where they think it might get better? If I've invested $50 in a game, you can be damn sure I'm going to play it for a few months just to get my money's worth, regardless of how much I may be enjoying it. If I got it for free, I feel no such compulsion. I may decide it doesn't run as well as I hoped, or I've seen the cool stuff I wanted to, or 'some jerk ganked me and I hate this crap', or 'I don't have time right now' and end up never coming back to it because something newer and more shiny has come out. That $50 pays a good chunk of distribution and throws a nickel or two at development, but the most important thing it buys is commitment.
Nope. Pissing about with petrol has well defined, clear and apparent risks. Flying into an incredibly unstable country to profiteer as a representative of a hated army of occupation has well defined, clear and apparent risks.
I question the intelligence of anyone who does either. I don't laugh at either of them.
Getting decapitated when going to Iraq is not a foregone conclusion. Getting fried when you let your friend hit you with a napalm-filled glass tube is. Unless you think that you could do it...
People should know that someone going to work as a civilian contractor in Iraq runs the risk of kidnap and decapitation by terrorists.
That does not mean that it is funny when it happens.
If they do it willingly? Hilarious.
If you want to use this analogy, you need to find a civilian contractor who thinks it's a good idea to decapitate himself and film it. Because, you know, it couldn't possibly hurt.