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[ksmith]

It’s raining. Gonna rain most all the weekend. We do need it. The Lake is down 14″ to the lowest level since the mid-60s while closer to home–as in, my basement–the sump pump well has been so dry so long that it has become quite the spiderarium. But the lawn has thinned enough in spots that the pups track muddy footprints when they return from bathroom breaks, and chilly&soggy is just my least favorite weather condition ever. Which makes one wonder why in hell it’s my dream to move to the PacNorWet.

All I can say is that mountains trump chilly&soggy. Portland&Seattle trump chilly&soggy.

Weekend point to ponder–am I the only person who has absolutely no issues using both Macs and PCs? I switched from PCs to Macs in the early 00′s in order to avoid infestations, and had no difficulty making the OS transition. Used PCs at the day job, and never felt a speedbump. OK, the backspace keyless MacBook keyboard trips me up every so often. When I return to PC-ville, I lose half a sentence before I remember where I am, but I think that the deletion of the MacBook Backspace key was done for space-saving reasons rather than to accommodate differences in language.

Anyway, I know some people have Definite Views–no need to restate them here. Mine have faded over time. In the interest of economy, I would even buy a PC laptop as a back-up system if I decided to return to Word or write purely in rtf or found some other word processing program that worked seamlessly between Mac and PC. I like working in Scrivener, but I’m not 100% committed to it.

Mirrored from Kristine Smith.

Comments

[torrilin.livejournal.com]

You do realize Macs are a flavor of Unix under the hood, right? On a Windows box, if I want a functioning command line, I have to install something like Cygwin to get the same functionality. On a Mac, it's there by default, and no wailing over making sure that unneeded services are turned off like with most Linux distributions. I've happily lived with something *nix based as my full time machine, no problemo.

The visual file manager stuff is well... visual. I don't actually use it all that much, and if I were doing serious file system wrangling, I'd do it via command line. Every UI has a different file manager implementation, and a lot of the time you can slot in a replacement if the stock one is super annoying.

[thebluerose.livejournal.com]

Yes I am aware that Macs are *nix under the hood. But I have neither the time or the inclination to use it at a command line level. Therefore if I cannot do what I want via the Gui Interface then the interface is whats lacking, not my ability. And given 99% of users will be the same I find your assumption that by passing the limitations of the gui interface (which is what you are doing) is easy and everyone wants to and can do it somewhat puzzling actually.

I did research and there didnt seem to be an option to sort out the Mac file wrangling issues either.