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One of the nice things I liked about OS X when I moved from Windows/Ubuntu around 2010 was the clear but playful naming of apps and utilities. They seemed to ha
by knolan 4y ago
One of the nice things I liked about OS X when I moved from Windows/Ubuntu around 2010 was the clear but playful naming of apps and utilities. They seemed to have presence. The large and beautiful high resolution icons helped too.
In Windows Disk Management was hidden away and searching for it would return a nebulous list with long winded descriptions but never name Disk Management forcing me to carefully read each result. For search to actually return Disk Management (or any utility for that matter) you have to type the entire name.
In OS X (and now in MacOS but with far fewer utilities these days) apps like Disk Utility have a personality and are easily searched for. Typing ‘du’ in Spotlight is all you need. Windows 10 fixes a lot of this with Super X (or right clicking on Start) but it still lacks that personality.
MacOS is losing a lot of its personality these days unfortunately. In a hurry I often confuse the app icons for Finder, Safari and Mail because they’re all similar white and blue squares.
I also love how the name Finder throws shade at Explorer.
- saagarjha 4y agoFinder predates Explorer by about a decade :)
- knolan 4y agoUnintentionally then! Long live the BSOD beige CRTs in Network view.
- anaganisk 4y agoMean while Samsung, Samsung notes Samsung file manager Samsung blah Samsung bleh Samsung blush
- Kwpolska 4y agoIn Windows 11, when you type "disk", you get disk cleanup, defragment/optimize, and then disk management. You can also type "partitions" and get what you want as the first result.
- knolan 4y agoThat’s about ten years too late.
- krackers 4y agoDisk Utility (the old version anyway) is an underrated tool. Sure you can use clonezilla or gparted or something, but having something built in and idiot-proof is a real joy. The only thing I wish it supported was moving partitions around.