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Some funny questions I have about acclimating to OSX.
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Software i did read the switchers guide posted, however I want to know what the readers actually use and recommend for the following issues
RAR: what would I use for variety of different compression standards. is there one program that could handle mostly all like winrar?
notepad: what would I used for standard text editor. if it supports tabs that would be great. but what do you guys use.
ssh, sftp, scp: what gui clients could I use for these?
dev c++ or bloodshed: Im use to blood shed for coding, what could I use here xcode? i have no idea.
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Some general OSX questions
Does it use some sort of package manager, or do i just delete the app out of the applications folder and the corresponding dir in the library? Or am i going about so in the wrong way.
Really what is up with that little black arrow under a application in the dock. even after I have closed out a app it would still be there with that arrow. Unless I do a force quit on lets use terminal for example. I closed it with the red X in the top left, but hey it's still there unless I do a force quit. I am a little confused.
Also since it is a unix based system how do I access the root account. I dont remember in the install being asked to set the root password. and when I try to su to root it's not going to happen..?
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that's it for now I'm sure I'll have more questions later, thanks alot.
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Software i did read the switchers guide posted, however I want to know what the readers actually use and recommend for the following issues
RAR: what would I use for variety of different compression standards. is there one program that could handle mostly all like winrar?
notepad: what would I used for standard text editor. if it supports tabs that would be great. but what do you guys use.
ssh, sftp, scp: what gui clients could I use for these?
dev c++ or bloodshed: Im use to blood shed for coding, what could I use here xcode? i have no idea.
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Some general OSX questions
Does it use some sort of package manager, or do i just delete the app out of the applications folder and the corresponding dir in the library? Or am i going about so in the wrong way.
Really what is up with that little black arrow under a application in the dock. even after I have closed out a app it would still be there with that arrow. Unless I do a force quit on lets use terminal for example. I closed it with the red X in the top left, but hey it's still there unless I do a force quit. I am a little confused.
Also since it is a unix based system how do I access the root account. I dont remember in the install being asked to set the root password. and when I try to su to root it's not going to happen..?
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that's it for now I'm sure I'll have more questions later, thanks alot.