Here is some ammunition for Apple haters who are sick of people smugly declaring OS X the best operating system evar:
- When you select multiple items in the Finder the status bar does not tell you their combined size… instead it continues to show the amount of free space you have on your disk. Because you never want to forget how much free space you have on your disk, not even for a moment.
- When you select Command-I or "Get Info" on multiple files, instead of showing you one information pane it brings up one for every file selected. So you STILL won’t know how much combined space is being used AND you now have to close all these stupid unwanted windows.
- The goddamn stupid startup sound is really loud and cute like once, maybe, about 10 years ago. It’s also an advertisement to any passing burglars that you have an overpriced computer worth stealing. And it’s a humiliating reminder that Macs DO sometimes crash. And it can’t be disabled! The best you can do is remember to mute your machine before you shut it down or crash next time.
- OS X was built with the assumption that a network drive going offline is a grave, grave problem justifying astonishing lengths of time staring at a spinning beachball of death. Also it is bad enough to be worth interrupting you in the middle of a movie to tell you that it has lost a drive that it wasn’t using anyway!
OS X uses the Blue-Screen-Of-Death thumbnail to represent Windows PCs on the network, thus proving that Apple and its designers are indeed unbearably smug assholes.- THE SHORTCUT KEYS ARE STUPID! THE PAGE NAVIGATION KEYS ARE STUPID! I’ve moaned about this before but it is just so undeniably true that I think it warrants a second mention.
- Folders are sorted along with regular files, making for an ugly mess when navigating. If sort by "kind" is selected then they are bunched together at least, but will still be the middle of a file list instead of the beginning or end (because "Folder" doesn’t start with an A or a Z)… Dumb Dumb Dumb.
Ok, I’m out, I didn’t make it to 10 this time… I was going to bitch about the full keyboard not having a Fn key on it (to modify behaviour of F1-F12) but then I noticed it does; just in a very different spot to my laptop… * chagrin * I also have to take back #2, sort of; If you hold down Control as well you can get multiple item info in a single pane– I still think that should be the default. And yes ok #3 can also be mitigated by holding down the mute button while your machine boots– but that’s a pretty damn annoying requirement (you actually have to hold the button down until you see the Apple logo on the screen).
BTW I know that some of these points are more hardware related than OS specific… Sosumi!