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What OSX needs to win Windows users
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<blockquote data-quote="Nethfel" data-source="post: 858102" data-attributes="member: 89124"><p>I'm still a fairly recent switcher from Windows PC to Mac. At first, I found myself swapping OS's, but mostly it was for some games (now I primarily just play COD4 which works on OSX). </p><p></p><p>I love OSX, but I'll admit, at first, it took a bit of work on my part to not use the Windows (or linux, as I use that too) crutch. I think the biggest problem with people moving to OSX is when they use their previous OS as a crutch and fall back on it because they are more comfortable with it. </p><p></p><p>Change isn't easy, but many times it's worth it. This is a situation where a person (the OP in this case) needs to ultimately make the decision to commit to his/her switch to the new OS. OSX is not Windows and there are a lot of differences because of that (I can't even count any more how many posts I've seen on various forums of new switchers complaining about how the windowing works on OSX because they are so used to full screen everything). </p><p></p><p>I try to do everything I can in OSX and have managed to not launch my bootcamp partition in weeks (although I have launched my vm of my old windows box because my scanner isn't compatible with OSX and I haven't been able to replace it with the Mac version yet (fujitsu scansnap has 2 versions, a windows version and a mac version - I tried to get my windows version to work on mac, but just doesn't like it) ) - I'm not going to say it's been always easy; but I'm much happier using just OSX (actually so happy, that I went and bought a mini to use at work rather then the windows box work gives to me to use).</p><p></p><p>Am I saying OSX is perfect? No. Do I find myself pressing my home key to have it do not what I expect? yes. Does it cause me to launch windows just so I can use a keyboard the way I have learned in the past? no - it just means I need to train myself to do it the way OSX does it.</p><p></p><p>Just like people using Linux for the first time after using windows (or DOS for those of us in the game for that long <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> ) for so long - it's got its challenges. There have been so many changes since I started using computers (late late 70's) - one has to be willing to adapt to change (even within a given OS) otherwise that person will always be miserable.</p><p></p><p>Just my $0.02 and humble opinion on the issue... I'll shut up now <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nethfel, post: 858102, member: 89124"] I'm still a fairly recent switcher from Windows PC to Mac. At first, I found myself swapping OS's, but mostly it was for some games (now I primarily just play COD4 which works on OSX). I love OSX, but I'll admit, at first, it took a bit of work on my part to not use the Windows (or linux, as I use that too) crutch. I think the biggest problem with people moving to OSX is when they use their previous OS as a crutch and fall back on it because they are more comfortable with it. Change isn't easy, but many times it's worth it. This is a situation where a person (the OP in this case) needs to ultimately make the decision to commit to his/her switch to the new OS. OSX is not Windows and there are a lot of differences because of that (I can't even count any more how many posts I've seen on various forums of new switchers complaining about how the windowing works on OSX because they are so used to full screen everything). I try to do everything I can in OSX and have managed to not launch my bootcamp partition in weeks (although I have launched my vm of my old windows box because my scanner isn't compatible with OSX and I haven't been able to replace it with the Mac version yet (fujitsu scansnap has 2 versions, a windows version and a mac version - I tried to get my windows version to work on mac, but just doesn't like it) ) - I'm not going to say it's been always easy; but I'm much happier using just OSX (actually so happy, that I went and bought a mini to use at work rather then the windows box work gives to me to use). Am I saying OSX is perfect? No. Do I find myself pressing my home key to have it do not what I expect? yes. Does it cause me to launch windows just so I can use a keyboard the way I have learned in the past? no - it just means I need to train myself to do it the way OSX does it. Just like people using Linux for the first time after using windows (or DOS for those of us in the game for that long ;) ) for so long - it's got its challenges. There have been so many changes since I started using computers (late late 70's) - one has to be willing to adapt to change (even within a given OS) otherwise that person will always be miserable. Just my $0.02 and humble opinion on the issue... I'll shut up now :D [/QUOTE]
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