Sick of all the BS
Sigh. Everywhere I go, there’s another person ragging on OS X… ‘Mickey Mouse interface’… ‘OSuX’.. etc. I’m sick of that bullshit. It’s easy to put X down just by looking at the package. Yeah. The fucking buttons are jellyish. The Dock moves up and down… OOOOoooOOOh.. Oh my Fucking god. It’s the end of the god-damn world. You know what? I like clicking on the jelly buttons. I enjoy using the Dock now. I even turned the magnification back on a little bit, because I like the feedback the system gives me. Don’t like the colored buttons? Use the graphite interface instead. That’s what you wanted isn’t it? Gray buttons like 9? You’ve got it.
Everyone’s all up-in-arms about ‘well the only good things about X are the things 9 had wrong with it.’ Yeah. As I recall, that’s the fucking point of releasing software upgrades. To fix what was wrong in the past. Stability was one of those issues 9 had. Unix and multi-threading fixes that. You want to know what another of 9’s problems was? It was fucking OLD. If Apple hadn’t included the Platinum interface with OS 8, you’d all be wailing for a new interface.
Use X for 5 days straight. Open up any apps you need in Classic (you might even be surprised at how few you might need, and at how fast they run) and use the damn thing for 5 days. If you feel you aren’t going to like it, hey, borrow your friend’s copy. Just use it for a second, before you start your bitching. The Finder is NICER than 9’s Finder (although still a little inexplicably slower), and the Dock actually helps me a little more than it did when I first started. I still click on the date/time in the right-hand corner sometimes, looking for the App-switcher, but X is new. It’s going to take some getting used to. So instead of bitching and moaning in comment-systems and threaded discussion groups, just fucking TRY IT. With an open mind. If you gave a flying fuck about the platform, you should, anyway. And X isn’t so far away from what you think the platform is about. You’ll see.
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Fuck Yeah, you tell ’em!!!
X is totally nice to use, I only wish I was brave enough to install it on my beige g3, but it’s too tricked out with 3rd party shit like drives and processor cards… But i have a nice little iMac that it runs fine on, and it’s a dream to use.
Give ’em hell!
Agreed. I’ve been using it on my second machine since Saturday and it’s been pretty good. It grows on you. I am not going to switch over full-time until Adobe and Macromedia get their acts together, but it’s slowly getting us to where we should be.
On the subject of system speed, check out this MacNN forum on OSX
OS X is awesome. I’ve been running builds since I installed Rhapsody DR1 on my 7600… Now I’m running 10.0.1 on a Dual 450 and a Pismo 500 and they both rock. I use Apple developers tools to create my Java apps so I can stay completely native and not have to load Classic… Cool.
Copy that. I’ve been using OS X since the 23rd. And the good most definatly outweighs the bad. People who judge operating systems by the color of the damn buttons shouldn’t be alowed to use computers.
Yeah! Agreed. Tell that to some of the whiners on SVN (not the 37 crew, but the readers.)
Fuck Yeah, you tell ’em!!!
X is totally nice to use, I only wish I was brave enough to install it on my beige g3, but it’s too tricked out with 3rd party shit like drives and processor cards… But i have a nice little iMac that it runs fine on, and it’s a dream to use.
Give ’em hell!
Agreed. I’ve been using it on my second machine since Saturday and it’s been pretty good. It grows on you. I am not going to switch over full-time until Adobe and Macromedia get their acts together, but it’s slowly getting us to where we should be.
On the subject of system speed, check out this MacNN forum on OSX
OS X is awesome. I’ve been running builds since I installed Rhapsody DR1 on my 7600… Now I’m running 10.0.1 on a Dual 450 and a Pismo 500 and they both rock. I use Apple developers tools to create my Java apps so I can stay completely native and not have to load Classic… Cool.
Copy that. I’ve been using OS X since the 23rd. And the good most definatly outweighs the bad. People who judge operating systems by the color of the damn buttons shouldn’t be alowed to use computers.
Yeah! Agreed. Tell that to some of the whiners on SVN (not the 37 crew, but the readers.)