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To provide a counterpoint, when my laptop was stolen a few months ago, I spent about three weeks using a borrowed Mac Pro. I had a similar experience - a hundre
by Zak 17y ago
To provide a counterpoint, when my laptop was stolen a few months ago, I spent about three weeks using a borrowed Mac Pro. I had a similar experience - a hundred little things drove me nuts. Among them were:
The lack of a package manager. Sure, I installed Macports, but it wasn't integrated in to the system, and there weren't ports of popular cost-free commercial applications like Skype.
No way to change the focus/raise model. I want a click inside a window to focus it, but not raise it. I want a click on the title bar or boarder to raise it.
It didn't properly detect when something was plugged in to the headphone jack (that may have been hardware).
Customization of the visual appearance is very limited. I want light on dark for most things. I really don't understand why it seems that most people prefer to stare at the equivalent of a light bulb.
I'm sure I could think of more. I'd expect OS X to be a nicer experience for most users, but it isn't for me.
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- ptomato 17y agoSkype? You mean like this: http://www.skype.com/download/skype/macosx/ http://www.skype.com/download/skype/macosx/ In general also mac applications don't need a package manager. Download, drag application to Applications directory, done. If you want to get rid of it, delete it from there, it's gone. Updating, http://sparkle.andymatuschak.org/ http://sparkle.andymatuschak.org/ is used in the vast majority of non-Apple software these days. Focus/raise model yeah, there's no way to change it that I know of, and personally my biggest annoyance with OS X is the inability to change window management in general. The headphone jack thing is almost certainly a problem with hardware, it works just fine on every Mac I own/have used. You can invert the display to use white-on-black with Ctrl-Alt-Command-8, or via System Preferences -> Universal Access, though that's probably not exactly what you're looking for.
- Zak 17y agoI know how to install software on Mac OS. I didn't know about Sparkle. It looks nice, but doesn't provide quite what I want; apt lets me have an upgrade process that's simultaneously automatic and controllable. I knew about the display inversion. It is most certainly not what I want.
- blasdel 17y agoFocus-follows-mouse (without raise) is extremely difficult to pull off on OS X because of the menu bar model. 10.6 added a hidden preference to make Terminal.app do focus-follows-mouse, and that's good enough for me. A lot of keyboard shortcuts don't work correctly though, because they're dispatched through the menu bar.