Rant: Mac ruins your PC experience

[The Pentium Guy]

We use macs in school. I don't use a mac at home. XP ftw.

For the past 5 minutes I'm sitting here control-clicking something in mathematica hoping it would right click. Then I just gave up and decided to log off by using Control Shift Q, and I later realized that doubleclicking a title bar does, in fact, maximize/restore instead of minimizing.

Then I noted the lack of bouncing icons and remembered which operating system I was on, desperately hoping that I wouldn't perform an illegal operation and shut down, and sorry, this program had to close unexpectedly -

....which just happened to my ENTIRE mathematica notebook just now. Luckily the meaning of 'save' is not unknown to me.

 

[Lithium381]

cookie ftw
while i used to loathe macs, they are starting to grow on me, while i can't see myself ever buying one....i don't hate them any longer

 

[OdiN]

Congratulations. You have learned that Mac shortcut keystrokes do not work on a PC.

Do you want a fsking cookie or something?

 

[uhohs]

i don't hate mac hardware or software, it's mostly hate for the insane hype generators like jobs and extreme fanboys.
their marketing consists of:

1. announcing how apple is different/thinking different
2. dissing pc's and pc users
3. stating that macs are 11 kabillion times faster than pcs.

MS should've let them die a few years back.

 

[fs5]

user error.

 

[hjo3]

I have both a mac and a PC... somehow I manage not to confuse the two.

 

[OdiN]

PEBKAC

 

[OrganizedChaos]

i'm on a PC. double clicking title bar shades the window and i have bouncing icons. log out can be preformed at any time with ctrl-alt-delete

KDE 3.5

 

[Tbirdkid]

organized chaos, yea and im sure you are running a really up to date machine too with that linux distro you are running. and if you are, how long did it take for you to finally get the drivers right on it? probably by the time you got it straight, you had new ones come out.

Dont bag on the os, bag on yourself for not knowing it or taking the time to get to know it. I was once in the shoes of baggin on different os's. but i realized that the problem wasnt the os, it was me. I didnt take the time to learn it.

 

[Chompman]

Excuse me but wtf is bouncing icons?

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Macs have their uses, just switching between the two is annoying as hell. Although, I'm still not a fan of being a fanboy. Windows isn't the best either, but hey - it works, and what else do you have? As for Linux, I prefer sticking to strictly console because setting up KDE/Gnome is a bitch if you have an ATI card.

Originally posted by: Chompman
Excuse me but wtf is bouncing icons?

Open up a program, the icon starts bouncing around on the bottom of the screen until it's done loading. A program makes an error, the icon starts bouncing. Gets on your nerves sometimes, realy.

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: The Pentium Guy
Macs have their uses, just switching between the two is annoying as hell. Although, I'm still not a fan of being a fanboy. Windows isn't the best either, but hey - it works, and what else do you have? As for Linux, I prefer sticking to strictly console because setting up KDE/Gnome is a bitch if you have an ATI card.

Originally posted by: Chompman
Excuse me but wtf is bouncing icons?

Open up a program, the icon starts bouncing around on the bottom of the screen until it's done loading. A program makes an error, the icon starts bouncing. Gets on your nerves sometimes, realy.

READ: Bouncing icons is fsking gay.

 

[Chompman]

Originally posted by: The Pentium Guy
Macs have their uses, just switching between the two is annoying as hell. Although, I'm still not a fan of being a fanboy. Windows isn't the best either, but hey - it works, and what else do you have? As for Linux, I prefer sticking to strictly console because setting up KDE/Gnome is a bitch if you have an ATI card.

Originally posted by: Chompman
Excuse me but wtf is bouncing icons?

Open up a program, the icon starts bouncing around on the bottom of the screen until it's done loading. A program makes an error, the icon starts bouncing. Gets on your nerves sometimes, realy.

Wow... I guess not using mac's for a few years pays off.

Sounds bad

 

[Kadarin]

While this is certainly not the lamest rant ever, it's up there on the list...

 

[Whitecloak]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33
While this is certainly not the lamest rant ever, it's up there on the list...

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: The Pentium Guy
As for Linux, I prefer sticking to strictly console because setting up KDE/Gnome is a bitch if you have an ATI card.

Pretty much the only reason that I "gave up" on Linux. ATI's Linux drivers SUCK.

 

[Whitecloak]

Originally posted by: Phil

Originally posted by: The Pentium Guy
As for Linux, I prefer sticking to strictly console because setting up KDE/Gnome is a bitch if you have an ATI card.

Pretty much the only reason that I "gave up" on Linux. ATI's Linux drivers SUCK.

same here + the inability to play games.

 

[Baked]

I use Macs at work and school. Only PC at home. You obviously suck at both.

 

[Injury]

While I wouldn't say I hate macs... I just flat out hate working on them.

I move faster than I ever can with Windows. The sheer fact that I can right click means I don't have to move a hand save for a little pressure on one finger and I can do a whole lot more instantly.

Grouping a taskbar/quicklaunch bar into one bar represented only by icons that either has to be not visible or in the way makes it hard for me to determine what windows I have open and makes it hard for me to switch applications fast.

I wouldn't call myself a mac poweruser, but I'm generally just annoyed by the roundabout ways you have to access things if you DON'T know the quick keys. Getting started with a mac is easy. Being efficient on one is not.

 

[hjo3]

Originally posted by: Tbirdkid
organized chaos, yea and im sure you are running a really up to date machine too with that linux distro you are running. and if you are, how long did it take for you to finally get the drivers right on it? probably by the time you got it straight, you had new ones come out.

Dont bag on the os, bag on yourself for not knowing it or taking the time to get to know it. I was once in the shoes of baggin on different os's. but i realized that the problem wasnt the os, it was me. I didnt take the time to learn it.

Wow, you're an incredible jerk. All he said was that KDE has some features similar to OSX's.

 

[0roo0roo]

universal consistent kb shortcuts are nice.

 

[remagavon]

Originally posted by: Injury
While I wouldn't say I hate macs... I just flat out hate working on them.

I move faster than I ever can with Windows. The sheer fact that I can right click means I don't have to move a hand save for a little pressure on one finger and I can do a whole lot more instantly.

Grouping a taskbar/quicklaunch bar into one bar represented only by icons that either has to be not visible or in the way makes it hard for me to determine what windows I have open and makes it hard for me to switch applications fast.

I wouldn't call myself a mac poweruser, but I'm generally just annoyed by the roundabout ways you have to access things if you DON'T know the quick keys. Getting started with a mac is easy. Being efficient on one is not.

Cmd+tab to switch apps, cmd+~ to switch windows IN that app. Also don't forget exposé.

 

[kami333]

weak...

I use a dual monitor OSX at work and I usually have a Remote Desktop connection open to my PC on my secondary monitor full screen so basically looks like I have Windows and OSX running on the same machine. No problem for me switching between the two shortcuts, it's like using different programs that have different shortcut keys.