I don't think your extremely harsh assessment is warranted at all. There's nothing really tangible in your post besides minor things you have to get used to lik

I don't think your extremely harsh assessment is warranted at all. There's nothing really tangible in your post besides minor things you have to get used to like pressing Cmd+Down to open a file instead of Return. Why exactly do you feel every interaction with Finder deletes your data? You can't just state something like that without giving examples. It's _the_ worst critique you can give a file manager. Also, where do you even find those endless preferences you talk about? There's only a handful checkboxes in the Finder > Preferences window. (Compare this to the clusterfuck that is Windows: http://i.imgur.com/2ZcsX7w.png http://i.imgur.com/2ZcsX7w.png). The only commandline setting I've used is the hidden files toggle which I try to avoid anyway because of all the dotfiles in my home directory. What are all these "iconoglyphs" you talk about? Can we see a screenshot of your Finder window? Something tells me you have configured it wrong by trying to use some obscure commandline settings.