Whats Wrong in OS X

blizmopblizmop
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in macOS edited January 2014
I just upgradded to OS X on my original Tangerine iBook 300 (4MB, 96MB, 3GB) and it looks really pretty there. Nothing runs at a speed I can handle put it certainly is pretty. I took it off.



Then I put it on my G3/400 (B/W 512MB, 27GB) and again, it is really pretty. It skips a little here and there, but Classic is a little sluggish. These speed isues are not a problem - my equipment is old.



Within OS 9.2.2 I am able to fly around the interface finding what I need and be productive. In X I am usually hunting and pecking around. I am new, its expected, right? Well, I am a 5 year verteran of the Mac OS... Should I need more than a week to get a new OS down?



Perhaps, but what I am really driving at is Apple has not shown me that they have taken function into consideration along with that pretty UI and hardware.



I woudl like to see something functional like the Apple Menu from 9: Y'know, click on it and Bam! There is everything you want! Apps, Files, Drives - and you can custom build it.



What is this nonsense where you click on a menu in the middle of the menu bar to get a submenu for Applications!?



The thought seems to have been put into their gigaflops. Excellent idea, but if that is the only place you put thought... Giga-Flop!

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  • Reply 1 of 9
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
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  • Reply 2 of 9
    blizmopblizmop Posts: 4member
    [quote]Originally posted by Scott H.:

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    It is too bad that it has come to outsiders doing Apple's job...
  • Reply 3 of 9
    jlljll Posts: 2,713member
    [quote]Originally posted by blizmop:

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    It is too bad that it has come to outsiders doing Apple's job... </strong><hr></blockquote>



    It's not Apple's job to make Mac OS 9 again - the Dock can do what you want.
  • Reply 4 of 9
    noahjnoahj Posts: 4,503member
    Not sure what you want that the doc cannot already do. Put your HDD down their as a shortcut. BAM. Applications folder. BAM. Can be browsed through popup menus about 3 levels deep or so. Works great for me. If you want more get some of the haxies available. I say, use it for 2 weeks using it the way that OS X was intended to be used. If it still has not grown on you then you may never like it.
  • Reply 5 of 9
    sebseb Posts: 676member
    Yeah. Like Noah said. Just drag your applications folder to the dock. Instand Alias.



    Or make a folder with only aliases of apps you want and drag it to the dock.



    Much easier, especially for newbies, than looking for a special folder in the "sacred" system folder.



    Just drag anything you want to the dock. Or for that matter you can drag any folder to the toolbar (the place where the applications folder resides).



    Also, you know that you can rearrange the toolbar however you like right?



    It just takes a little getting used to is all.
  • Reply 6 of 9
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    I find the Dock just as useful as the Apple Menu was. I use the Dock more actually.
  • Reply 7 of 9
    amorphamorph Posts: 7,112member
    Likewise, I prefer the Dock. Much easier to customize, much more intuitive to use, and it has to be said, much less likely to destabilize the system.



    The Apple Menu was a shaky pile of hacks by the time MacOS reached version 9. Good riddance.



    I'm still waiting for a replacement for labels, though. Preferably a more robust implementation than classic MacOS'.
  • Reply 8 of 9
    suckfuldotcomsuckfuldotcom Posts: 550member
    Methinks the Dock is directed at Windows-crossover buyers.



    SdC
  • Reply 9 of 9
    katekate Posts: 172member
    What's wrong? The Finder is!



    That sucker came to a grinding halt six times in the last hour. Force restart Finder all day while performing easy tasks, the cpu gets hardly more than 40 per cent.



    As Amorph said it's a pile of hacked waist.

    I know he was talking about the Apple menu, I know.



    For me the Finder is the most unproductive bottleneck so far. I do not mention the bugs here and there in the GUI in the filesystem, etc. it is a version 0.1.2 , but the Finder really must be 0.0.1 . <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
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