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OS X from a hardcore Windows user’s perspective

1 pointsby pdeva1over 11 years ago

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masswerkover 11 years ago
Maybe written a bit to early, so here are some hints:<p>1) No run command in GUI to access a Folder: Use &quot;Go to folder&quot; (But still no globbing, you have to use the terminal if you want auto-completion.)<p>2) No &quot;Cut&quot; in Finder: Use &quot;Cut&quot; (from main menu, shortcut, or context menu – it even has undo)<p>3) Maximize doesn&#x27;t work: It&#x27;s not maximize, but zoom. Apple changed this behavior with System 7 (in 1992, if I remember this correctly), when 9 inch monitors became obsolete. The widget switches a window&#x27;s size to minimum size to cover the entire content and back again.<p>4) Menu bar used as system tray: For a Mac user it&#x27;s perfectly the other way round (Windows system tray is only exposing a limited view on the widgets – How do you work with this?).<p>5) Alt + Tab doesnt switch windows of same app: Use F9<p>6) Activity monitor sucks compared to Windows Task Manager: It&#x27;s probably a matter of taste (having more items in a view or just a few of them with nice graphics). Does Task Manager have something like &quot;Sample Process&quot;?<p>7) Multi monitor is a joke: Not really, in fact full screen mode is the joke ;-)<p>8) No Windows &quot;Aero Snap&quot; equivalent: beware! IMHO this doesn&#x27;t work well with the Mac&#x27;s user experience. (But this is a personal view and a few third party add-ons are proving that there are at least some, who feel different about this.)