Re: I hate the Finder more each day

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From: Paul Mison
Subject: Re: I hate the Finder more each day
Date: 16:58 on 04 Sep 2003
On 04/09/2003 at 08:37 -0700, Ann Barcomb wrote:
>There could almost be a seperate mailing list for Mac complaints.
>I was thinking of getting an iBook, but now I'm not sure.

The complaints are mainly because us old-timers are used to things 
being better,  once upon a time, UI-wise anyway, than they are now. 
Mac users are picky sods, all told. Just read a couple of John Gruber 
articles.

I mean, if I even *try* to use the Windows (file) Explorer, let alone 
any of the bloated abortions the open-source people have invented 
(say hello, very very briefly, Nautilus, before you die in a flurry 
of repeating error messages that fill the sub-Windows 95 taskbar 
analogue), I am so filled with paroxysms of hate that I can barely 
actually get to a mail client to enter them into a computer.

Therefore I avoid this situation, compared to which the Mac OS X 
Finder, even with all its faults, is a very happy place indeed, 
somewhat akin to a beach on a tropical island that's just a little 
less sunny and warm than the one on the neighbouring island which we 
had to vacate, because the volcano in the middle kept exploding 
inconveniently, but which is still much nicer than the resort on the 
Costa Del Sol everyone else seems happy to stick with. (Well, except 
for those nuts who go hiking in the mountains. Everyone else thinks 
it's cold and wet, but they do it anyway. Loons.)

Of course, if you're coming from Unix, you probably won't mind using 
the command line for everything anyway, but I happen to like seeing 
files stay where I put them on a visual field. Freaky, I know.

-- 
:: paul
:: historic light cone
There's stuff above here

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