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Got to agree ... every OS these days seems to annoy me in huge ways. I was surprised after I moved to a Mac that it had huge usability issues and even a lot of
by zmmmmm 15y ago
Got to agree ... every OS these days seems to annoy me in huge ways. I was surprised after I moved to a Mac that it had huge usability issues and even a lot of basic bugs. For some reason I always just accepted that Apple nailed usability but OSX (Snow Leopard) was annoying as hell. I miss so much the standard ability to navigate menus with hotkeys in Windows. I'm forced to use the mouse for a huge number of things that I never had to in Windows.
But then in Windows there are an almost equally number of annoying things, the primary being the lack of a Unix-like environment by default. I end up going with Cygwin but that has all its own issues.
Then Linux is just a neverending pita with driver issues, crappy versions of things like Skype, no possibility of MS Office, etc.
In the end I don't particularly care what OS I use because I know each and every one is just going to require me to customise the crap out of it before I'm happy (I will say for Windows and Linux that I nearly always end up getting there, so far with OSX I'm not and I'm not optimistic about the future with the direction Apple is moving).
- fauigerzigerk 15y agoTwo things have made the Mac a little more comfortable for me recently. One is an OS extension/plugin called Witch. It allows you to switch between all open windows in MRU order the same way Alt+Tab does on Linux and Windows. The other one is to enable "All Controls" on the keyboard shortcut preferences panel. That allows you to use the tab key to move between active buttons in confirmation dialogs like "do you want to save changes?".