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What's the prob with Cut/Paste/Deleting? It's not especially different from Windows, other than needing to hold the CMD key to delete something.
Well if you find the existing widgets to be useless, then don't use them and find some that you find useful. There are entire websites chock full of them. Or don't use them at all. No one's forcing them on you.
Email clients are for email. Want newsgroup access? Get a newsgroup client. If you want an app that does both, then get one. Just because MS Outlook Express does both doesn't mean that has to be the defacto standard for Apple and everyone else to follow. I use separate clients for email and newsgroups myself... always have even in Windows.
As to the shortcut keys and mouse... well yes, OS X is lacking badly in supporting multi-button mice. I highly recommend picking up SteerMouse. It lets you customize your mouse buttons totally to your liking. USB Overdrive does also, but doesn't support bluetooth mice yet (last I heard).
As for lack of a word processing program, well look at the bright side. Now you won't feel compelled to settle for what came with the computer. Find one you like and buy it (or get a free one... plenty of those too).
As for web pages filling the screen... well Safari's Maximize button only expands the window as much as it needs to to fit the web page so you don't have to scroll sideways. Really... what's the point in "making" the page fill the window? There's no extra content for doing so. If it bothers you that much, switch to using Firefox instead. There's also Shiira and Demeter, both of which use some of the same underpinnings in the OS that Safari uses, but they work slightly differently in their own ways.
If you mean why doesn't the window open up to cover the Dock, then just turn on the Dock's hiding option. Or put it on the side. Or shrink it.
Well if you find the existing widgets to be useless, then don't use them and find some that you find useful. There are entire websites chock full of them. Or don't use them at all. No one's forcing them on you.
Email clients are for email. Want newsgroup access? Get a newsgroup client. If you want an app that does both, then get one. Just because MS Outlook Express does both doesn't mean that has to be the defacto standard for Apple and everyone else to follow. I use separate clients for email and newsgroups myself... always have even in Windows.
As to the shortcut keys and mouse... well yes, OS X is lacking badly in supporting multi-button mice. I highly recommend picking up SteerMouse. It lets you customize your mouse buttons totally to your liking. USB Overdrive does also, but doesn't support bluetooth mice yet (last I heard).
As for lack of a word processing program, well look at the bright side. Now you won't feel compelled to settle for what came with the computer. Find one you like and buy it (or get a free one... plenty of those too).
As for web pages filling the screen... well Safari's Maximize button only expands the window as much as it needs to to fit the web page so you don't have to scroll sideways. Really... what's the point in "making" the page fill the window? There's no extra content for doing so. If it bothers you that much, switch to using Firefox instead. There's also Shiira and Demeter, both of which use some of the same underpinnings in the OS that Safari uses, but they work slightly differently in their own ways.
If you mean why doesn't the window open up to cover the Dock, then just turn on the Dock's hiding option. Or put it on the side. Or shrink it.
