Re: What do you dislike about OSX?

In article <1134453233.034700.218100@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Martin Kess" <MartinKess@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Lots of anti-Apple posts lately. So to the Mac users - What do you like
> least about OS X? Don't take this as a 'what do you think is better in
> other operating systems.' Just, what could be improved to improve the
> overall user experience?

iPhoto is buggy, unfortunately. I really loved this application, but some
serious bugs has led me astray. Fortunately, Aperture is a lot better, but not
as easy to use as iPhoto.

..Mac synching between computers has become buggy since Tiger. This was also a
great advocacy point and something I used all the time. It has become
unreliable.

Mounted sharepoints are still a bit unreliable in that they can lock up the
Finder if the computer they originate from crashes or something like that. The
Finder doesn't really feel multithreaded at all in those instances.

> Personally, I see the dock as needing a do over. It needs to be able to
> hold collections of programs (like the start bar in Windows, sort of).

What do you mean?

> There should be somewhere in the system config folder to change
> filetype associations. Maybe there is already (I haven't found it).
> Changing the default web browser by going into Safari isn't very
> intuitive.

That's a power user thing anyway, and there are numerous third party utilities
that does this. Get Info dialog on a file will let you change the file type
association for that file or for all files like it.

> Quicktime is junk. No fullscreen - what?

There are applescript commands you can run to put QuickTime in full screeen
without buying Pro.

> High def videos run choppy on
> my 1.9GHz iMac

What? They run smooth as a babies but on my PowerBook 1.25Ghz and my 1.8Ghz G5.

> and yet I can run two instances of the video at the
> same time fine with VLC. There are free alternatives (such as VLC and
> MPlayer) which have better performance and aren't crippled. So why is
> Quicktime?

But they can't handle H.264, yet. Or can they? I'm not sure.

> And I would LOVE a laminated keyboard shortcut cheat sheet that
> includes Windows shortcuts beside OS X shortcuts. Would have made my
> life so much easier. Something like:
>
> Command Windows Apple
> Copy Ctrl+C Command+C

Uhm, ok. I don't see the point other than for really global commands such as
copy/paste, in which case you just substitute the ctrl key with the command key.


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