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<blockquote data-quote="Doug b" data-source="post: 1106488" data-attributes="member: 59143"><p>As much as I agree with the "OS X isn't Windows" mantra, I disagree with the fact that adding the missing functionality in Finder would make OS X anything like Windows. It's two separate issues. Apple, in trying so hard to prove that they don't do things like everybody else, sometimes cut off their nose to spite their face. So they've put patents on certain OS attributes and functionality, which are less desirable to the end user anyway? Not much sense there. </p><p></p><p>Pathfinder is ok I guess, but to have to run an extra application in order to gain such simple functions which should be inherent in the OS, is a waste. Just redundantly eating up resources.. blah. </p><p></p><p>And as far as learning to use it as it has been designed to be used... the basic fact is that it's both clumsy and inefficient. Clumsy because if you use spring loaded folders in one Finder window, it's entirely possible to miss your mark consistently. And inefficient because the alternative is to open several windows rather than use tabs or other much more efficient methods as seen in other Nix OS's. NOT just Windows. You're seeming to leave out that those other methods aren't attributes of Windows only. </p><p></p><p>"Be different. Even if it's inconvenient". Sweet, I'm all in ! <img src="http://www.dgrin.com/images/smilies/vis.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Doug</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doug b, post: 1106488, member: 59143"] As much as I agree with the "OS X isn't Windows" mantra, I disagree with the fact that adding the missing functionality in Finder would make OS X anything like Windows. It's two separate issues. Apple, in trying so hard to prove that they don't do things like everybody else, sometimes cut off their nose to spite their face. So they've put patents on certain OS attributes and functionality, which are less desirable to the end user anyway? Not much sense there. Pathfinder is ok I guess, but to have to run an extra application in order to gain such simple functions which should be inherent in the OS, is a waste. Just redundantly eating up resources.. blah. And as far as learning to use it as it has been designed to be used... the basic fact is that it's both clumsy and inefficient. Clumsy because if you use spring loaded folders in one Finder window, it's entirely possible to miss your mark consistently. And inefficient because the alternative is to open several windows rather than use tabs or other much more efficient methods as seen in other Nix OS's. NOT just Windows. You're seeming to leave out that those other methods aren't attributes of Windows only. "Be different. Even if it's inconvenient". Sweet, I'm all in ! [IMG]http://www.dgrin.com/images/smilies/vis.gif[/IMG] Doug [/QUOTE]
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