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I agree some things here aren't backed up, and there are half-truths. The guy says he's going to list bugs, then he really doesn't, he just bitches in bulletpoi
by VonGuard 14y ago
I agree some things here aren't backed up, and there are half-truths. The guy says he's going to list bugs, then he really doesn't, he just bitches in bulletpoint form.
HOWEVER: He's totally right about everything behind all this. Apple is really fucking up OS X, and clearly it has no desire to keep any users that don't see their iMac as a giant iPhone.
My wife just got a brand new MacBook, and I was disgusted by the way the OS behaves now. There's NO way to get to the hard drive: they just hide everything and give you Documents, Pictures, etc.... The OS itself has removed hot keys and functionality in favor of "ease of use" but really, it's just being dumbed down.
The Mac OS was always for casuals, but when they added Unix, it changed and both casual and hardcore could love the same OS. But clearly the hardcore are no longer of any interest to Apple. It's a real shame because the Mac OS was very stable and useable for many years. Now, it's just a toy.
Oh, and Apple changed it so you need an Appstore account to update software. Real pain in the dick.
And finally, Apple doesn't need ZFS, necessarily. They need a standardized FS though. HFS+ is ghetto, and a drive formatted HFS+ is essentially useless to any other type of machine.
- angersock 14y agoAnd finally, Apple doesn't need ZFS, necessarily. They need a standardized FS though. HFS+ is ghetto, and a drive formatted HFS+ is essentially useless to any other type of machine. I could make the argument about Reiser or ExtN outside of *nix, or NTFS outside of windows. There's a better attack here to be made than this one.
- VonGuard 14y agoSee, the reason I want HFS+ gone is that NOTHING supports it. NTFS is supported on Mac OS, albeit read-only. NTFS is readable on most Linux's. EXT is readable by a number of OS's. And I don't want ReiserFS on my Mac. I don't want to be killed and stuffed in a suitcase by my filesystem.
- Osmium 14y agoHFS is no more proprietary than NTFS. There's a free HFS reader available: http://www.catacombae.org/hfsx.html http://www.catacombae.org/hfsx.html Or a commercial option: http://www.paragon-software.com/home/hfs-windows/ http://www.paragon-software.com/home/hfs-windows/ These solutions are available if you just look for them. And, regarding your other comment, aliases and symlinks still work . . .
- VonGuard 14y agoI know aliases and such still work, but you cannot, as far as I can tell, make an alias of yer HD on the desktop. Clearly yer not supposed to, but it just irked me. Thanks for the HFS links. I've never seen either of those before. Coulda saved me a lot of time and money!
- Osmium 14y agoI completely agree with some of what you're saying but it's criticisms like "There's NO way to get to the hard drive: they just hide everything and give you Documents, Pictures, etc...." that seem misguided: of course you should hide the inner workings of the OS from the average user, but it's absolutely trivial for anybody to see their hard drive if they want to (including hidden files). The easiest of which doesn't require any advanced knowledge, but is just a matter of going into Finder preferences and checking "Show these items on the desktop: [] Hard disks" Criticising Apple for hiding things that the average user shouldn't know about seems to be getting in the way of completely valid criticisms like what you say about OS X needing a more modern FS.
- VonGuard 14y agoI agree, Apple can hide things to make the OS less complex. But what irritates me is that, as a user, I upgrade to the new OS, and the most basic of functionalities is hidden from me. They've literally taken something away. You cannot put a link to your compputer or hard drive on the desktop anymore. Is it not unreasonable to think that your users might want to be able to do this as you've had this hard-drive-on-desktop paradigm for well over 30 years now? I'm glad there's a check box to show the computer on the desktop now. I would never have found that. I mean, 30 years of interface paradigms teaching me to make an alias or simlink there was obviously just some mental retardation on my part...
- taligent 14y ago> obviously just some mental retardation on my part. Well I am not going to disagree with you on that point. There has ALWAYS been a way to have your hard disk on your desktop.
- craigyk 14y agoWhat? My mounted volumes show up just fine on my desktop?
- epochwolf 14y ago> You cannot put a link to your compputer or hard drive on the desktop anymore. Open finder. Hit Cmd + , to bring up the preferences. Click the Hard Disks checkbox.
- danilocampos 14y ago> There's NO way to get to the hard drive http://imgur.com/FeAkoYs http://imgur.com/FeAkoYs
- lloeki 14y ago> There's NO way to get to the hard drive Also, pick your style: - Finder->Go->Computer (aliased as ⇧⌘C) wherein lies Macintosh HD. - ⌘Space->Terminal->cd / This claim is ridiculous.
- taligent 14y agoOther way: Finder->Sidebar And add your computer or individual hard disks to the sidebar.
- lostlogin 14y agoThank you for the dose of logic. Truth be told, I hate not seeing it, but having turned it on, I use it less than I'd expected. If I could just disable the option if saving to desktop, home and work would be beautiful. Sort of related to HD options, the default of having no display of remaining storage space is irritating to me, especially on the MacBook Air.
- eridius 14y ago> My wife just got a brand new MacBook, and I was disgusted by the way the OS behaves now. There's NO way to get to the hard drive: they just hide everything and give you Documents, Pictures, etc.... The OS itself has removed hot keys and functionality in favor of "ease of use" but really, it's just being dumbed down. What the heck are you talking about? The only thing I can think of is the Finder defaults to not showing hard drives on the desktop, when it used to default to showing them. That's it. I can still go to Finder preferences and re-enable "Hard disks". I can also put them back into the sidebar if they're missing there. And of course the Go→Computer menuitem (shortcut: ⌘⇧C) still works as it always has. As does Go→Go To Folder… (shortcut: ⌘⇧G).
- jasonlotito 14y ago> The guy says he's going to list bugs, then he really doesn't, he just bitches in bulletpoint form. Did you miss the pages following the first? He provides numerous specific examples. He even says in the original article (though it's easy to miss, which makes me think you missed it): "The pages that follow are those personally encountered— not 3rd party reports." For example, the next two pages: Impossible to Complete a File Copy on Any Drives http://macperformanceguide.com/AppleCoreRot-Finder-copy-error-DS_Store.html http://macperformanceguide.com/AppleCoreRot-Finder-copy-erro... Time Machine Silently Excludes Critical Data http://macperformanceguide.com/AppleCoreRot-TimeMachine-excludes-critical-data.html http://macperformanceguide.com/AppleCoreRot-TimeMachine-excl... etc. Here is a list of all the pages in that specific series: http://macperformanceguide.com/index_topics.html#AppleCoreRot http://macperformanceguide.com/index_topics.html#AppleCoreRo... There is also a list for "Lion Hairballs" http://macperformanceguide.com/index_topics.html#LionHairballs http://macperformanceguide.com/index_topics.html#LionHairbal...
- VonGuard 14y agoYup, I missed that. Thanks!
- SkyMarshal 14y ago>The OS itself has removed hot keys Did they completely remove hotkeys, or just deactivate them by default?
- SkyMarshal 14y ago>The OS itself has removed hot keys Did they completely remove hotkeys, or just deactivate them by default?