GitHub for Windows

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Tue May 22 06:04:57 PDT 2012


On 2012-05-22 14:00, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

> Mostly 10.2. And then people told me "You have to upgrade to 10.3! It's sooo
> much better!" Me: "Yea, you said the same about 10.2, asshole. When I made
> the mistake of believing you that time, I blew $100 just to add (remove?)
> stripes from the dock's background and make the kernel panics prettier. Oh,
> yea, and make SMB slightly less broken - that was the killer feature."
> Hundred dollars for a damn point release. Bah. MS would have called it a
> service pack and given it away.
>
> By the time 10.4 rolled around, the stupid machine had already died anyway.

I slightly started to move to Mac OS X with 10.4 and made the full move 
with 10.5. I don't think I could have made the full move until 10.5.

>> I feel like OSX (and Mac's hardware) got almost everything right. It makes
>> you more productive, even if you are a developer.
>
> Every single thing about it either got in my way or slowed me down (And
> that's when it was actually working right.) The mouse (every single one
> Apple's ever made - I quickly replaced the nearly-useless Apple mouse with a
> Microsoft one), the sluggish mouse acceleration no matter how you tweaked it
> (need a mousepad the size of Rhode Island),

The Apple mouses has always been a joke. I started with Mac OS X on a 
laptop, if you then mostly use the track pad it's not as bad. When I 
made the full move to Mac OS X I continued to use my logitech mouse.

  windows that can't figure out
> where the dock is and decide to partially hide behind it, the dock which
> conflates running apps with non-running ones (opps, that's right: there's a
> *teeny* *tiny* little...uhh...triangle to show you the difference),


  every
> view offered in finder (they were all awful and barely-usable, even the one
> I was initally very excited about),

I've replaced Finder with PathFinder:

http://cocoatech.com/pathfinder/

But then, in version 6, they made the tabs and some other parts of the 
UI blue and that annoys the hell out of me :(

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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