10 Things I Hate about OS X
OS X is good but far from perfect. Better that Windows XP? Maybe. Definitely faster. It is not without its share of annoyances. To Windows XP's credit, most annoyances can be fixed with tweaks, power tools, and registry settings.
So, inspired by these lists of 10 Things (actually 20) to Hate about OS X, here's mine.
If you see something here that can be fixed, let me know.
10. Dragging dissimilar items to the trash doesn't work.
If I drag a disk and a file to the trash simultaneously, the file should be put in the trash and the disk ejected. This is even more important with Disk image files, where I have mounted an image file and want everything to just "go away".
9. It's too easy to accidentally launch the wrong item from the dock.
If you click a few pixels off the mark, you might have to wait a long time staring at the spinning beach ball.
8. The "you removed this device the wrong way" message.
Windows XP figured out how to deal with this, the Mac OS X should have figured this out first. This also goes back to #10.
7. Lack of write support for NTFS volumes.
6. When you press command-J to change the view of a Finder window, the default is "All Windows".
That's backwards. It should default to the current window. It's very easy to screw up all your finder windows with this default.
5. Dashboard is only as fast as the slowest open widget.
If you have a widget that has to look something up on the net or "initialize" when you invoke dashboard, none of the other widgets work until that straggling widget has got its work done. This problem alone has kept me from using the dashboard altogether.
4. Too hard to get rid of dashboard widgets.
I know there is a way to make them disappear from the active dashboard. The fact that I can neither remember nor easily figure out how to do it by guessing means it's too hard.
3. Default icon placement spacing is WAY too big.
At least on the desktop, new items are created with way too much space in between them and the last one.
2. Single sign on isn't really single sign on.
When I login as a user with Administrator rights, I don't expect to get prompted for a password for *certain* actions that require these rights. I have identified myself to the system once and the assumption should be that it's still me. If this were actually done to increase security, it would require me to enter complete credentials, and not just a password (the username text field is pre-populated).
1. Bouncing dock items.
These are worse than System Tray balloons in XP. They are little imps -- incarnations of evil determined to distract me from my work and annoy me needlessly.
So, inspired by these lists of 10 Things (actually 20) to Hate about OS X, here's mine.
If you see something here that can be fixed, let me know.
10. Dragging dissimilar items to the trash doesn't work.
If I drag a disk and a file to the trash simultaneously, the file should be put in the trash and the disk ejected. This is even more important with Disk image files, where I have mounted an image file and want everything to just "go away".
9. It's too easy to accidentally launch the wrong item from the dock.
If you click a few pixels off the mark, you might have to wait a long time staring at the spinning beach ball.
8. The "you removed this device the wrong way" message.
Windows XP figured out how to deal with this, the Mac OS X should have figured this out first. This also goes back to #10.
7. Lack of write support for NTFS volumes.
6. When you press command-J to change the view of a Finder window, the default is "All Windows".
That's backwards. It should default to the current window. It's very easy to screw up all your finder windows with this default.
5. Dashboard is only as fast as the slowest open widget.
If you have a widget that has to look something up on the net or "initialize" when you invoke dashboard, none of the other widgets work until that straggling widget has got its work done. This problem alone has kept me from using the dashboard altogether.
4. Too hard to get rid of dashboard widgets.
I know there is a way to make them disappear from the active dashboard. The fact that I can neither remember nor easily figure out how to do it by guessing means it's too hard.
3. Default icon placement spacing is WAY too big.
At least on the desktop, new items are created with way too much space in between them and the last one.
2. Single sign on isn't really single sign on.
When I login as a user with Administrator rights, I don't expect to get prompted for a password for *certain* actions that require these rights. I have identified myself to the system once and the assumption should be that it's still me. If this were actually done to increase security, it would require me to enter complete credentials, and not just a password (the username text field is pre-populated).
1. Bouncing dock items.
These are worse than System Tray balloons in XP. They are little imps -- incarnations of evil determined to distract me from my work and annoy me needlessly.
posted by Rob at 6:09 AM
2 Comments:
9. Don't use the Dock. Use Quicksilver.
6. I don't see that. Cmd-J brings up a panel whose title is the same as the current folder in my topmost Finder window. Am I not seeing the same thing as you? Is it because I always keep my Finder windows in browser mode?
5. That's not a problem with Dashboard; it's a problem with poorly written widgets.
4. Click on the little plus-sign icon in the bottom-left-corner of your screen. Now every widget has a close box-thingy.
2. Administrator rights != root.
1. Just how long are your Dock icons bouncing? Am I spoiled by a 1.67 GHz G4 with 1 GB of RAM? :-)
9.Quicksilver. I am sure there are many third party apps that solve dock problems. There shouldn't need to be.
6.Cmd-J should bring up the View options for the window, with the radio button at the top defaulting to "All Windows"
5. Dashboard- I hold by the statement that it should not be possible to "hijack" the entire dashboard with a poorly written widget.
2. Has nothing to do with root. I am prompted for the credentials I am using, not root.
1. They bounce long enough to double by blood pressure, then I Obey the Bouncing Dock icon.
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