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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

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

You aren't alone in standing back from that religious war. Mac? PC? They're appliances. I only pay attention to them if they don't work.

[cailleuch.livejournal.com]

I teach Animation & such things using both OSs. Home and office computers are Macs. My only problem is keyboard shortcuts -- command & alt key keyboard positions are swapped. Muscle memory sometimes messes me up. Otherwise it is all the same.

[difrancis.livejournal.com]

My main problem after switching over to Macs is with the newer Windows programs, I can't find my way around that well. And the newer Microsoft Word is difficult too, but I expect I'd get used to it once I used it every day. The man and kids use PCs and I use them at work sometimes, but it's really a case of just figuring stuff out. It ain't where it used to be.

[thebluerose.livejournal.com]

Use the command ribbon at the top to put in all your favourite actions in there, 2 min and you will be using Word just like you used to be!

[thebluerose.livejournal.com]

I am a PC girl but over the last year have had a lot of MAC exposure with one of the camera clubs I am in, I am the backup AV person and I have had to learn how to use one.

The thing that frustrates me is that you can't actually DO a lot of stuff with a MAC that you can with a PC, I am talking moving things around at a folder level, sorting files in certain ways. Macs allow you to do things they way they do it and no other way, and if you like that then fine, but if you don't its very frustrating. I suspect most PC people never research their issues in enough depth to figure out what the problem is, they just react negatively.

What gets me is the almost religious devotion to the Mac concept by its fans, like the other user, its just a tool, I use a PC because its easier for me, and I don't care what brand it is!

[galeni.livejournal.com]

I use both at work. And I discovered that the FN key plus backspace gives me the other delete key. I use a full sized Mac keyboard at work and home except for my Air. But its weight (lack of) makes up for the missing keys. My fingers are mostly fine with swapping between all three keyboards/systems.

Oregon has no sales tax but Seattle has slightly more moderate weather and usually less snow from what I've seen than Portland. I love the PNWet.

[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.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I can adjust to either one's idiosyncrasies. Maybe it helps that I don't dig into the guts much, or try to reprogram. I pretty much work with whatever comes out of the box.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

The thing I had to remember in Oregon was to refrain from trying to pump my own gas. That was different. And I remember back when no one pumped their own gas anywhere, but it was still weird.

[lrcutter.livejournal.com]

I love mountains too, and I miss them. Fortunately, from Seattle, it's really easy to drive up into them. The cold & wet don't bother me too much -- then again, I work from home, not an office, so when there's a sunbreak, it's easy for me to take advantage of it, sign off the computer and get outside.

Like you, I use a PC for the day job and a Mac for my home computers. When I first made the switch a few years ago, there was more disconnect between the two paradigms -- it was also the first time I'd had a Mac. Now, as you say, it's maybe a few minutes of, "Oh, yeah, that's there, not here."

Would love to have you out here, despite the cold & wet!

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Would love to have you out here, despite the cold & wet!

It's my plan. Timeline is iffy. Need to spiff up the current abode and sell it--given the state of the market, that may take a while. Have had a couple of serious discussions with myself concerning what I really want to do, my limitations--personal, financial--and what I can live with and without. Funny the accommodations you can make when you really, really want something. The things you're willing to set aside, that become 'nice to have' rather than 'need to have.'

[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.