{"id":459,"date":"2008-11-23T12:10:11","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T17:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2008\/11\/23\/reasons-why-i-hate-mac-os-x\/"},"modified":"2008-11-23T12:10:11","modified_gmt":"2008-11-23T17:10:11","slug":"reasons-why-i-hate-mac-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/11\/23\/reasons-why-i-hate-mac-os-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasons Why I Hate Mac OS X&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object type=\"image\/svg+xml\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" data=\"http:\/\/www.codedread.com\/clipart\/apple.svgz\"><span\/><\/object><object type=\"image\/svg+xml\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" data=\"http:\/\/www.codedread.com\/clipart\/worms.svgz\"><span\/><\/object>... or \"how you can help me be more productive\".  Of course there are lots of things that I like in Mac OS X, and others that I'm sure I'll get used to over time.  Please spare me your flames \ud83d\ude42  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>These are things that I just can't seem to get used to, things that I miss when going from Windows to Mac OS X.  In other words, stuff that Mac OS X developers should seriously consider changing\/adding to their OS.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/db.tidbits.com\/article\/8893\">mouse acceleration curve<\/a>.  After years of working in Windows and Linux (Mandriva\/SUSE\/Ubuntu), this is <em>by far<\/em> the hardest one to deal with.  I'm trying out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavacat.com\/iMouseFix\/\">iMouseFix<\/a> for now, but things still seem a little \"off\" somehow.<\/li>\n<li>Resizing windows only on one corner (Thanks to Steve for <a href=\"http:\/\/masonmark.com\/2008\/05\/power-windows-for-your-mac\/\">this link<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Easy keyboard access to the menu - this is probably just something that I missed in my scanning for Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts.  I really miss the Alt key usefulness in Windows.  [Update: As <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2008\/11\/23\/reasons-why-i-hate-mac-os-x\/#comment-12776\">mentioned below<\/a>, ctrl-f2 works, but it is far worse than a simple alt keypress]<\/li>\n<li>Related to the above, Menus and Title Bars not attached to the window in question.  I hate having to move my focus and mouse to a different region of the screen to do something related to the window in focus.  Yeah, I know this is a contentious one, and possibly it's just something I need to get used to - but an option for Windows users trying to get used to Mac OS X would be great.  [Update:  To those below who claim that ONE menubar is a better idea, why is it better for the menubar to be detached from the window you're using, but not its toolbars?]<\/li>\n<li>I miss being able to copy and paste a file path from Windows Explorer into a File Open dialog in any application.  Why doesn't Finder include this very obvious thing that I can at least drag to the toolbar during customization?<\/li>\n<li>Dragging a file from Finder into TextEdit does not open the file, it puts in a file link.  Is there a way for TextEdit to automatically open any file I drop into it?  Barring that, what's the easiest way to bring up arbitrary files into a text editor?  I miss my TextPad right-click option...<\/li>\n<li>System clock does not visibly show me the date information, I am forced to click [Update: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2008\/11\/23\/reasons-why-i-hate-mac-os-x\/#comment-12790\">David<\/a> posted a tip below to fix this, though I've found the it buggy: you must not be in a \"Custom\" region and you must use the \"Medium\" time format and you must paste your date _AFTER_ the time]<\/li>\n<li>You cannot selectively delete items out of the Trash.  This seems ridiculous to me.  If a file has been in my Trash for a month, I can be pretty sure that I don't need it anymore, but the same is not true of a file that I've just deleted.  Yes, I can move files out of Trash, then Empty, then items back.  Or I can install little apps to do that for me.  But once again, OS X has made more work for me where Windows did not.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; or &#8220;how you can help me be more productive&#8221;. Of course there are lots of things that I like in Mac OS X, and others that I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll get used to over time. Please spare me your flames \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,25,11],"tags":[182,111],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-software","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-mac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}