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When I switched from Windows to OSX, I was constantly frustrated by the way Apple chose to organize things. I hated having the menu bar be on the top of the sc
by hnal943 11y ago
When I switched from Windows to OSX, I was constantly frustrated by the way Apple chose to organize things. I hated having the menu bar be on the top of the screen and not part of the window for example. Trying to take a screen shot was impossible without google. It was just as least as difficult learning to be productive on a mac as it was when I transitioned to Ubuntu.
I've come to believe that there is no such thing as a universally intuitive interface - consistency is achievable, but everyone comes to your interface with a different background and therefore a different sense of what is intuitive.
- kps 11y agoJef Raskin wrote an essay from CACM (21 years ago!) titled Intuitive equals familiar. Text here: http://www.asktog.com/papers/raskinintuit.html http://www.asktog.com/papers/raskinintuit.html
- hellofunk 11y agoI find Apple's use of the trackpad for swiping between desktops or between full-screen apps to be much quicker for navigating an environment than the alt-tab or mouse use on Windows. Perhaps Windows has improved to offer similar Apple navigation techniques, but I really like that when I switched to OSX. I also think Time Machine is one of best native OS tools I've ever seen, painless incremental backups with no effort by the user.
- hnal943 11y agoI came to like things about OSX also. In particular I liked the Ubuntu-style Spaces. That doesn't mean they were intuitive; it took effort to learn the Mac milieu.