Things You Learn from Switching
1. They aren't kidding about its simplicity. For example. I downloaded Camino because I missed the Firefox features. I could have gotten the Firefox for Mac initially but I wanted to try Camino out first. Downloaded it into my desktop, double-clicked on it and waited for it to install, like in a PC.
...and waited, I did. I realized you don't have to wait for it to install anything. You literally drag the Camino icon inside your Applications folder and it's there. Unlike in Windows, you don't see a "Camino" folder containing multiple files and folders of stuff that you don't understand, nor even know why it's there. Unless you're a developer or something, but I digress. The whole application is represented, as it should be, with a single icon.
If I decide that I want to "uninstall" Camino, I just need to drag the icon from the Applications folder into the Trash can. That's how simple it is.
2. I had my concerns regarding The Dock, but now it's the best thing there is. Right now I only have less than a handful of applications contained in it and only three are open. (Adium, Safari and the Finder) When they said that in Macs there aren't a lot of random applications running in the background, they weren't kidding. I was worried about the lack of ctrl+alt+del but there really is no reason to them at this point. Remember looking under "Processes" in the Task Manager for Windows and seeing things like user.sys or whatever running? None of those on Mac. If I really need to stop an application from running, there's Force > Quit, and believe me, it does stop the application in less than 3 seconds.
3. The power of Aliases. For the anal retentive in all of us, now you can "save" files in multiple folders without having to use of hard disk memory. It works like a Shortcut but even better. It will always be connected to the original file, even if the latter has been renamed or moved. Very useful in instances such as creating photoalbums. They function similarly as Itunes playlists -- you can drag the file into folder X without literally taking it out of the parent folder.
4. I find it amusing that I have already been Mac-ified even back then when I still used Windows. Going through Tiger just feels like everything fits, that I didn't have to install a third-party app like Yahoo Widgets to see useful data on my desktop, and that in Tiger you don't actually see the widgets 100% of the time but rather, are accessible with one hotkey via Dashboard. In fact, I didn't have to install anything at all. I had to double-check with our desktop just to make sure I haven't forgotten to download anything "crucial", but there really is nothing else you need to make the system "better". It's fine just the way it is.
Of course, I haven't explored AppleScripts yet...
...and waited, I did. I realized you don't have to wait for it to install anything. You literally drag the Camino icon inside your Applications folder and it's there. Unlike in Windows, you don't see a "Camino" folder containing multiple files and folders of stuff that you don't understand, nor even know why it's there. Unless you're a developer or something, but I digress. The whole application is represented, as it should be, with a single icon.
If I decide that I want to "uninstall" Camino, I just need to drag the icon from the Applications folder into the Trash can. That's how simple it is.
2. I had my concerns regarding The Dock, but now it's the best thing there is. Right now I only have less than a handful of applications contained in it and only three are open. (Adium, Safari and the Finder) When they said that in Macs there aren't a lot of random applications running in the background, they weren't kidding. I was worried about the lack of ctrl+alt+del but there really is no reason to them at this point. Remember looking under "Processes" in the Task Manager for Windows and seeing things like user.sys or whatever running? None of those on Mac. If I really need to stop an application from running, there's Force > Quit, and believe me, it does stop the application in less than 3 seconds.
3. The power of Aliases. For the anal retentive in all of us, now you can "save" files in multiple folders without having to use of hard disk memory. It works like a Shortcut but even better. It will always be connected to the original file, even if the latter has been renamed or moved. Very useful in instances such as creating photoalbums. They function similarly as Itunes playlists -- you can drag the file into folder X without literally taking it out of the parent folder.
4. I find it amusing that I have already been Mac-ified even back then when I still used Windows. Going through Tiger just feels like everything fits, that I didn't have to install a third-party app like Yahoo Widgets to see useful data on my desktop, and that in Tiger you don't actually see the widgets 100% of the time but rather, are accessible with one hotkey via Dashboard. In fact, I didn't have to install anything at all. I had to double-check with our desktop just to make sure I haven't forgotten to download anything "crucial", but there really is nothing else you need to make the system "better". It's fine just the way it is.
Of course, I haven't explored AppleScripts yet...