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Switcher Hangout (Windows to Mac)
16 years PC, now over to MAC: Help! :)
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<blockquote data-quote="Oneironaut" data-source="post: 1192854" data-attributes="member: 88633"><p>It sounds to me that you are still very much stuck in a Windows mindset. Yes, it would be nice to have a cut feature, but even though I had gotten used to it after years and years of using Windows, it's definitely not something that would ever make me go back to using Windows as my primary OS again. If you stop comparing the Windows way vs. the Mac way and just go with things the way they are, you do get used to it. </p><p></p><p>If you had started on a Mac and never known what cutting files was, you wouldn't find it such a ludicrous, egregious omission. You'd just think it was an amazing Windows feature. There are things I use more that Windows doesn't have, but I'm sure there are third party tools for those too. </p><p></p><p>Whichever platform you use, there will always be basic things you miss and workarounds to getting those functions back. To me, the lack of a registry, the little productivity tools (Expose, Spaces, keystroke dictionary definitions) and things like Time Machine, Automator and other neat applications more than make up for the one or two things that Windows does better. In fact, cutting is really the only thing I can think of that Windows does better. </p><p></p><p>Just gotta ask yourself what the tradeoffs are, whichever way you go. And to be honest, even though I have Move Addict and find it easy enough to use, I really don't use it that often. Dragging and Command-dragging items seems intuitive enough for me, since I kind of like to see where things are moving between anyway.</p><p></p><p>At any rate, have patience. If you are hung up on what OS X doesn't do, you'll never discover the dozens of other things that it does do better. It's always frustrating when switchers are ready to trade in their Macs after a few weeks because they're trying to make OS X work like Windows. They're never going to even realize that so many other cool things are there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oneironaut, post: 1192854, member: 88633"] It sounds to me that you are still very much stuck in a Windows mindset. Yes, it would be nice to have a cut feature, but even though I had gotten used to it after years and years of using Windows, it's definitely not something that would ever make me go back to using Windows as my primary OS again. If you stop comparing the Windows way vs. the Mac way and just go with things the way they are, you do get used to it. If you had started on a Mac and never known what cutting files was, you wouldn't find it such a ludicrous, egregious omission. You'd just think it was an amazing Windows feature. There are things I use more that Windows doesn't have, but I'm sure there are third party tools for those too. Whichever platform you use, there will always be basic things you miss and workarounds to getting those functions back. To me, the lack of a registry, the little productivity tools (Expose, Spaces, keystroke dictionary definitions) and things like Time Machine, Automator and other neat applications more than make up for the one or two things that Windows does better. In fact, cutting is really the only thing I can think of that Windows does better. Just gotta ask yourself what the tradeoffs are, whichever way you go. And to be honest, even though I have Move Addict and find it easy enough to use, I really don't use it that often. Dragging and Command-dragging items seems intuitive enough for me, since I kind of like to see where things are moving between anyway. At any rate, have patience. If you are hung up on what OS X doesn't do, you'll never discover the dozens of other things that it does do better. It's always frustrating when switchers are ready to trade in their Macs after a few weeks because they're trying to make OS X work like Windows. They're never going to even realize that so many other cool things are there. [/QUOTE]
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