Hi Benjamin,
I agree with you. Mac OS X is far from perfect and has its
annoyances. Nevertheless it's desktop capabilities have sold me on
it, even though I administer linux servers & write apps for them on a
daily basis. I find OS X much more productive than any Linux distro,
but that is my personal preference and work habit that makes it so.
A couple of pointers though for you, that might help reduce your
frustration with OS X
1) You can use Virtue (http://virtuedesktops.info/), it works well
and pretty neat.
2) You can Apple+Tab between applications, then Apple+` to go cycle
through the window of one app. Let's not forget Expose as well if you
have a multi button mouse (I personally have a MX1000 and each button
is programmed to fire a different Expose action - really convenient)
3) The dock can be fully disabled if you hate it so much and it is
not enough to hide it. Look on macosxhints.com
4) No solution here - It is true it requires a little bit of mind
games here to find the right window, first click the app, then cycle
through the windows using the keyboard or explode them via Expose. I
use NX to connect to my Linux Desktop and I have to get re-accustomed
to the task-bar myself each time, while it is more direct to your
app, it is not workable when you have 10 apps open with several
window in each where you are back hunting for your window.
If you are luck enough to own a MacBookPro, then buy Parallels and
run Windows & Linux as a guest virtual machine, the performances are
very good and you will have the best of each world. If you use Virtue
like I suggest in 1), you can have each OS running full screen in a
virtual desktop which makes it look so transparent and pleasing...
Anyway, hope those hints help!
Cheers!
Sébastien
On Oct 25, 2006, at 7:32 PM, Benjamin Smith wrote:
Just out of curiousity, why replace OSX with Centos?
Mike
'Cause it's just better. Among other things, MacOS has the
following problems
that DRIVE ME UP THE WALL:
1) Multiple Desktops, or, at least, the lack thereof. Yeah, Leopord
will come
with 'spaces', but if it isn't released, it isn't released.
2) Application windows don't alt-tab between them. So, if you have
two or
three terminal windows open, you have to use the mouse to switch.
(AGUHG!)
3) The dock is easy to use, but just irritating to me. It succeeds
in being
pretty and consuming useful desktop space without providing much
useful
information at all. It's like a pretty girl with rocks in her head
- nice to
look at at first, but no fun to live with!
4) No task bar. (Hey, it's easy to jump straight to whatever you
want by
hitting the button, without having to "hunt" for it based on
whether or not
you minimized it)
OTOH, I have to support Mac OSX with our client-side software - so
being able
to run Linux, Windows, and OSX on a single machine without alot of
pain would
be very, very nice. (but I'm starting to get my reservations)
-Ben
--
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
- XEROX PARC slogan, circa 1978
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