Mac OSX: Sucks cock or frustrating, too different and unwisely created?

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Hey, I was psyched to turn my system prefs to OSX and restart. what a great idea: have a solid Linux-based OS to run the less stable OS 9.2 and all the older programs. That way, if a program crashes, just quit out of it and OSX is still running. No harm done. Restart the program.

Oh, but then I had to register through some javascripted thing twice for both programs, callibrate my monitor twice for both platforms and basically get confused enough to say, "ah, this isn't so great. So I crash once in a blue moon. So fucking what," and switch system pref startup disk back to OS 9.

Really, my 4 or 5 hours of fucking around with OSX here and there proved to me it was nothing short of absolutely lousy. I don't want to learn to "think differently" so that every damn thing about computer interfaces are new to me. That's just stupid. And changing the names of functions and control panels is retarded. Everything is so new on OSX, it makes customization impossible because you can't figure out what is useless extraneous garbage and what is necessary for the system. Oooh, speakable items! The magic dock that sucks up windows. Fuck that, it's totally unorganized looking and more cluttered than if I left 25 icons on my desktop. But, it's nice that Apple gave me a free mac.mail account and a free webspace, with my purchase, which I'm pretty sure I'll never figure out how to take advantage of, given the fact that my new OSX automatic internet set-up manager failed to trigger the internal modem and make a proper connection to the net. "We'll have you up and running in a minute" my ass.

― Nude Spock, Sunday, 7 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Wow, I just checked Mac OSX on epinions.com and found the "Microsoft-Corp" review right on the money. If I had windows software and graphics apps, I would have definitely bought a Dell or something for half the price of my new G4. Oh, don't get me wrong, I like my G4 and apple's fine for now, but I'm ready and willing to make the switch if the graphics industry suddenly does a full switch over.

― Nude Spock, Sunday, 7 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I nk Mac May have finally gone too far in the direction of alienating loyal users with the combination of poorly made imacs, lack of internet compatability and too "different " ideas for the large chunk of market theyre after.

― Mike Hanle y, Sunday, 7 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, next thing ya know, Mac will have big ol' "Think Different" billboard with Osama where Einstein used to be... because they're that out of touch with what we want... get it? Ha.

― Nude SPock, Sunday, 7 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd rather they showed a man with two cocks.

― Mike Hanle y, Sunday, 7 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I love OS X, it's pretty, and it looks newer and cooler than your operating system. Everytime I open a classic app or go into VPC I'm disgusted, I can't work in all that ugly. I had to get out of the DTP industry because of how ancient-looking Quark is.

― Otis Wheeler, Sunday, 7 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am not touching that OS X. No... way. I have 9.1 and it's running smoothly. So why need to upgrade to something which apparently sux @ss?

― nathalie (nathalie), Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's pretty? It's candy-colored bevels and shadows! Colors I would never buy on any product unless I was a teenage girl. Unless, you switch it to 'graphite' mode, of course, which is just black and white. But, you can actually get your work done in this mode. at least.

― Nude Spock, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The voice of dissent. MacOSX is ace. It's certainly not prime time (not even with the copy of 10.1 that I have, worst luck) so in a way apple are screwing up. But it is nevertheless ace. I have no reasons to give, I'm merely blandly asserting that it is the case.

Oh and Quark 5 is looking good...

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Quark 5 is looking good

...for me to poop on! Seriously, Quark was so good in the first place, there's not much more they can do except make it more complicated. I like 3 standard apps (photoshop, illustrator, quark) rather than one big do-it-all app like Indesign... who's using Adobe Indesign over Quark in the industry? Anyone? I'm sure service bureaus have it, but I doubt they're ripping many files created with Indesign.

The funny thing, is everyone decides that what we've got is good enough, the economy is fucked, ain't it? I'm content creating graphics and video with the age old software of 2 or 3 years ago. Photoshop 6's color is inaccurate, anything after Illustrator 8.5 (?) is buggy and annoying. Quark's 4.whatever release still confuses me as to what is better about it, although I do use it. Like I'm ever going to use Quark paths over Illustrator? Graphics are assembled in photoshop or illustrator (converted to outlines) and locked into place in Quark. That's all there is to it. It's foolproof. Vectors and pixels beat kerning and leading with fonts on paths any day. And, illustrator's bezier curves are much more delicate/less jerky than Quark's. Adobe Premier and Director are a-ok. What' to improve? Do we want to create holograms now?

― Nude Spock, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nude spock -- hey that's my rant! Quark 4 -- never touch it. Photoshop 6 is OK so long as you STRONGLY control the colour management -- though yes there is not much to add from 5. (Impossible of course if you have freelancers to think about).

Are we off topic yet?

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mac OS 9, as great as it is, has loads and loads of big flaws that absolutely piss me off, and Mac OS 9 fixes pretty much all of them. It's certainly not perfect, but those things that completely pissed me off before feel a million times worse whenever I go back.

― Graham, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I installed OSX on my home machine, and after suffering through a system slow-down that made my machine run like molasses, I re-installed OS9, which I never had a problem with in the first place.

I'm a graphic designer, and use the Windows platform at work (not by choice), and agree that QuarkXPress 4 point whatever is pretty much "done", and doesn't leave much room for improvement... I use it every day and have zero complaints. I have the latest iterations of Illustrator and Photoshop because I can just order the latest upgrades when they come out, but I really find no worthwhile new functionality in either one.

― Sean, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

six years pass...

guys, to run windows programs with parallel desktop, do you need to have a windows platform installed or does this program know how to work with windows files by itself?

― sunny successor, Monday, 4 August 2008 14:21 (sixteen years ago)

needs windows

― DG, Monday, 4 August 2008 14:24 (sixteen years ago)

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