installing osx on my pc is more of a bragging-rights kind of thing. the more and more i use it, the more and more i realize i can do without it. while it is really nice to run the osx operating system on a pc with no worries, there are still little quirks and bugs about having a hacked kernel that still bug me.
Whilst I of course appreciate that there is bound to be a learning curve with a new OS here’s the list of ‘wrong’ things that are currently really getting on my nerves:
1) Transferring focus between apps requires an additional click. In Windows if an application has focus, one can still move the mouse to another app and place the mouse over an item and click to execute. There’s some sort of soft-focus going on where the item you’re about to click knows that you are so when you do the click the action is executed; imagine that.
With Mac OS X your app has focus or it doesn’t. Moving from one to another you need to give an initial click just to give it focus then another to actually carry out the action that you require.
2) My mouse is too slow. Even with the mouse pointer speed up to the maximum.
3) Home and End key madness. there are home and end keys and they are in the right place but they have some magic behavior which does not to put the cursor at the beginning and end of lines.
A related annoyance is the fact that alt needs to be used instead of ctrl to get the cursor to move over to the next word.
4) Only one place to resize windows.
5) No obvious way of auto-mounting network volumes. I tried a ‘load at login’ option from within the Users page within Settings but that didn’t work. For now I’ve just symlinked /Volumes/share to my desktop.
6) renaming method. If you want to rename a file you select it then press enter. You’d think it’d come up under the context sensitive menu but no.
7) My mouse is crap. This is in addition to the slowness mentioned above; it just doesn’t seem to be very accurate. Not sure whether it’s because I bought the Bluetooth one but I’m forever clicking on the wrong thing even though it looks as if the pointer is in the right place.
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