It’s just downright painful watching dumb people trying to use Macs.
Now, OS X does NOT behave like Windows (95/98/ME/2K/XP/Vistake/7). Why should it? Do you expect GNOME or KDE to behave like Windows? No. So why the hell sit down in front of a Mac and complain that it’s not the same? It’s a whole new operating systems, with an entirely different usage-flow.
You don’t maximise windows, rarely minimise windows, and closing a window doesn’t close the associated app.
These are probably the two biggest differences, except for copy/paste being Apple-C and Apple-V instead of using the control key.
So why do people have such difficulty with them? It actually makes little difference to how you use the system.
And yet watching people who don’t know what they’re doing try to use them is endlessly frustrating. Minimizing windows and completely losing them as a result, trying to stretch windows to take up the entire screen, and inadvertently leaving apps running forever because they close windows instead of apps.
How hard is it to just use Apple-Q or select “Quit” instead?
I’ve got a good idea for you, though: stick to Windows.
Because if you can’t get used to the fairly minor changes between OS X and Windows, then be glad that you aren’t being forced to use a Linux box using some obscure WM like Ion3 or Ratpoison.
Then you’d be truly fucked.
Sideways.
By a cave-troll.
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