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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 coneThere's stuff above here
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