10 Things I Hate About OS X
10. The Finder: The finder has been part of Mac OS since, well, forever. In OS X, the Finder is fairly limited in functionality and sometimes cannot seem to keep up with the user. For example, when you try to connect to a network that is no longer available, the Finder completely hangs until it times out. Another annoying gem is how you can right-click and copy a file and yet you cannot use "cut" to move a file.
9. No easy access to the current date: I can't count the number of times I have looked at the menu bar hoping to find out the current date, but instead all I get in the current day and time. My only options are clicking on Dashboard in the dock or clicking on the time to display the time.
8. No system uninstaller: One of the things I love about the Mac is that most apps come as packages and installation is just a case of dragging the icon from the disk image to a place of the hard disk. Uninstallation of these packages is done by simply dragging the icon into the Trash. There are however some applications that need to put their files in other areas of the hard disk and therefore come with an installer like that found in Windows. The problem here is that in order to uninstall these kinds of apps, you have to re-download the original application and hope that the publisher bothered to create an uninstaller. Apple needs to implement a system uninstaller.
7. Font dialogue:
The font dialogue in OS X is so unfriendly with its tiny labels...Anyway, a picture is worth a thousand words as the say.
6. Zoom button: Even though I started my computing life in Mac OS 7, I spend a considerable time in Windows for my work and one of the things I miss is the ability to maximize the window to full screen. Apple could implement this and keep the current behavior (the window only resizes to the maximum required size to fit the window's current contents) by having an "Option-Zoom" that maximizes the window.
5. No virtualization: I know and understand the reasons but it still sucks that I can't run OS X in a virtual machine.
4. No resize from all edges: Windows in OS X can only be resized from the bottom-right corner and no-where else. Not sure what the design reason is for this little gem but it irritates the hell out of me.
3. Round Corners: The corners of the screen (and in fact most windows) in OS X are rounded. I believe this originates to the original Mac whose physical display had rounded corners. In this day and age of LCD screens, there is no longer any reason for the rounded edges. Get rid of it already!
2. The Trash: In pre OS X versions of OS X, the trash icon was located on the desktop (Windows copied the idea). In OS X, its located in the dock and there is no proper way to relocate it (not even an alais).
1.Development Tools: This may just be a personal preference but developing applications on OS X is a lot harder to get into than the equivalent in Windows.
Coming next, 10 things I hate about Windows Vista....
9. No easy access to the current date: I can't count the number of times I have looked at the menu bar hoping to find out the current date, but instead all I get in the current day and time. My only options are clicking on Dashboard in the dock or clicking on the time to display the time.
8. No system uninstaller: One of the things I love about the Mac is that most apps come as packages and installation is just a case of dragging the icon from the disk image to a place of the hard disk. Uninstallation of these packages is done by simply dragging the icon into the Trash. There are however some applications that need to put their files in other areas of the hard disk and therefore come with an installer like that found in Windows. The problem here is that in order to uninstall these kinds of apps, you have to re-download the original application and hope that the publisher bothered to create an uninstaller. Apple needs to implement a system uninstaller.
7. Font dialogue:
The font dialogue in OS X is so unfriendly with its tiny labels...Anyway, a picture is worth a thousand words as the say.
6. Zoom button: Even though I started my computing life in Mac OS 7, I spend a considerable time in Windows for my work and one of the things I miss is the ability to maximize the window to full screen. Apple could implement this and keep the current behavior (the window only resizes to the maximum required size to fit the window's current contents) by having an "Option-Zoom" that maximizes the window.
5. No virtualization: I know and understand the reasons but it still sucks that I can't run OS X in a virtual machine.
4. No resize from all edges: Windows in OS X can only be resized from the bottom-right corner and no-where else. Not sure what the design reason is for this little gem but it irritates the hell out of me.
3. Round Corners: The corners of the screen (and in fact most windows) in OS X are rounded. I believe this originates to the original Mac whose physical display had rounded corners. In this day and age of LCD screens, there is no longer any reason for the rounded edges. Get rid of it already!
2. The Trash: In pre OS X versions of OS X, the trash icon was located on the desktop (Windows copied the idea). In OS X, its located in the dock and there is no proper way to relocate it (not even an alais).
1.Development Tools: This may just be a personal preference but developing applications on OS X is a lot harder to get into than the equivalent in Windows.
Coming next, 10 things I hate about Windows Vista....
posted by Steve at 1:03 PM
1 Comments:
Regarding the Apple windows - not only have they done this highly irrating disservice for Mac OS, but..
Safari for Windows!
I defy anyone not to get really annoyed with the single point for resizing, the >tiny< window border or the fustrating why-does-it-have-to-look-like-that design which makes it hard to see and use on Windows.
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