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Old 11-30-2009, 10:53 PM
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Originally Posted by bobtomay View Post
Not everyone uses it. I don't.

I like a mouse. Don't like hotkeys. Have enough stuff in this old brain without having to remember a bunch more stuff.

I tried it. It was a whole lot more work than I was interested in putting forth.

However, a whole mess of people do like it.

I might install and uninstall around 200 apps a year. You know what that would do to a Win machine. No problems to speak of in OS X. Install and uninstall as you like. Try out everything you run across. Only word of advice, those apps that have their own installer pkg, use their uninstaller when you remove them.
I'm with you, bobtomay - tried Quicksilver, and it seemed to be mostly redundant. For me, I can launch anything by just hitting Command+Space and start typing and hit Return. It's that simple. Of course, on Windows, I'm big on Windows+R, start typing something and hitting Enter. So, it was a natural extension of that habit, albeit with a slightly different spin.

What I'm not a fan of is installing applications that suck up resources and essentially duplicating existing functionality.
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