Re: Just answer me one . . . ok, 9 or 10 questions, Mr. PC?
- From: -hh <recscuba_google@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:40:48 -0700 (PDT)
Mayor of R'lyeh <mayor.of.rl...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Selah <se...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
How can OS X be called a POS OS when it works consistently,
Tell it to a guy who just a software update and then had to pull all
of his files for a couple of apps out, empty his caches folder and
reinstall the apps to get them working again.
Gosh, did this happen to you, Mayor?
This is actually fairly common despite what any Maccies will claim.
Since you were just forced onto Macs this summer, I find it hard to
understand how many updates you could have already gone through, to
develop the *opinion* as to how common/uncommon this sort of thing
might be.
Personally, in looking through a couple of things, I see that my MS-
Office has been untouched (aka "un-re-installed") since December
2005. Granted, I've not installed Leopard yet, but that means that my
installs for 10.4.4, 10.4.5, 10.4.6, 10.4.7, 10.4.8, 10.4.9, 10.4.10
and 10.4.11 all went cleanly without having to touch MS-Office.
will recognize and function with the hardware connected to it,
So long as its on the approved list anyway.
The only time that I bother even checking for 'approved' lists is when
buying a major peripheral, such as a scanner or printer, so as to see
that they have a driver. Of course, if one is running Vista, the same
applies.
doesn't require that you buy new hardware every time a new
OS version comes out,
I can't think of an OS that does.
Have you heard of Vista? Or of XP? Or of Windows 98? Or of Windows
95? When they were introduced, they all essentially required more
hardware horsepower.
doesn't crash or hang up,
Which is why there's no colored spinning pinwheel icon or a kernel
panic screen because they're simply not needed. There's also no Force
Quit window along with no keyboard shortcut to open said window
because it simply isn't needed.
Those features are there because of paranoid new Windows users :-)
doesn't constantly bother the user with popups that must be responded to before proceeding,
Unless you count Keychains constantly being asked to be used with no
obvious way to turn it off.
The only time that I see any Keychain dialog is when a mailserver goes
down.
doesn't constantly ask to go online to get the latest software, driver
No the Software Update icon just sits there in the Dock bouncing away
until you finally can't stand the distraction anymore and deal with
it.
System Preferences / Software Update / Check for Updates: {daily -
weekly - monthly}
Also, on those occasions where it does run and makes a Dock bouncy, if
you call it up, the bouncing will stop - - but you're not compelled to
do anything immediately. Just leave it up on the desktop but then
effectively move it to the background by calling back up your other
work. When you wrap the rest of your work up and shut down your
active apps, it will still be there to remind you to install, reboot,
whatever.
-hh
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