Register.com claims that 90% of Mac users hate Aqua/OS X

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  • Reply 101 of 108
    onlookeronlooker Posts: 5,252member
    I've been using ?? version of OS 10 ever since I got my 867. I have used OS 9 as emulated in classic more than I have had to boot into OS 9 stand alone. I always shut it (9) down when I'm done with it, and go right back into OS 10 (without emulating 9). And after 10.1, and 10.1.2 updates I don't even like OS 9 anymore. My new favorite site is SourceForge, and the OS X community is just starting to grow there, and it's an impressive one. UNIX ports are pouring in, and I'm loving it. OS 9 is the past like Elvis. Get on with your life. Elvis IS Dead



    All that aside, the only time I go to the register is when someone here mentions it. I would forget it existed if people didn't. The stories are few, and far between (just like the front page of AI), and they usually don't amount to anything anyways.



    OS 10 rules. If Apple was still using OS 9 as their main OS I would be using some version of NIX by now. Probably on a x86 box. I was getting pretty attached to yellow dog, before OS X Beta was available, and I had been seriously considering it (Linux,/ Debian, or Suse) on a faster x86 box before it (X Beta) was released.
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  • Reply 102 of 108
    onlookeronlooker Posts: 5,252member
    I've been using ?? version of OS 10 ever since I got my 867. I have used OS 9 as emulated in classic more than I have had to boot into OS 9 stand alone. I always shut it (9) down when I'm done with it, and go right back into OS 10 (without emulating 9). And after 10.1, and 10.1.2 updates I don't even like OS 9 anymore. My new favorite site is SourceForge, and the OS X community is just starting to grow there, and it's an impressive one. UNIX ports are pouring in, and I'm loving it. OS 9 is the past like Elvis. Get on with your life. Elvis IS Dead



    All that aside, the only time I go to the register is when someone here mentions it. I would forget it existed if people didn't. The stories are few, and far between (just like the front page of AI), and they usually don't amount to anything anyways.



    OS 10 rules. If Apple was still using OS 9 as their main OS I would be using some version of NIX by now. Probably on a x86 box. I was getting pretty attached to yellow dog, before OS X Beta was available, and I had been seriously considering it (Linux,/ Debian, or Suse) on a faster x86 box before it (X Beta) was released.
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  • Reply 103 of 108
    nonsuchnonsuch Posts: 293member
    [quote]Originally posted by steve666:

    <strong>The other concern is with the dock-I think Apple should make it optional. Have it be the fefault setting because it would be easier for Windows users but give us the option of turning it off and using the old finder. I'm sure I will get used to it, though.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    The Dock and the Finder don't really have anything to do with each other. If you mean you want windowshading back, there's a $7 haxie called WindowshadeX that will restore it for you. Install that, then set the Dock to Hide (or replace it with a 3rd-party launcher like DragThing) and go on about your business. You can set the Finder to work just like the old one did.
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  • Reply 104 of 108
    bogiebogie Posts: 407member
    Mark? You are back as a mod? Damn, nice to see it.



    Anyways, the topic of the thread is a bit misleading, its 90% of their responses as noted in the first post.



    However, I agree that it sounds made up, fact is I have only talked to maybe 3-4 Mac users that don't like Mac OS X of the 30+ in our user group round these parts. Maybe the aqua haters are hiding but if that were the case I don't they would all send in so many emails.
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  • Reply 105 of 108
    aries 1baries 1b Posts: 1,009member
    First, let me publicly reverse my previously posted whine about how 'the first to get a tablet computer to market place gets my money'. I plead temporary insanity, driven to the edge by my unresolved grief over the death of the Newton.



    Now, to the thread topic: I WON'T use anything prior ot OS X. I love this damned OS. Since I finally found drivers for my epson scanner, I've got EVERYTHING that I need to stay in the bliss-ful OS X universe until the heir apparent, Lisa Jobs, Future CEO of Apple-Microsoft, Inc. leads us back into the OS wilderness with OS 100.



    Remember, we're trying to take marketshare from Microsoft. The windows people, shattered, and abused wretches that they are, will need an easy, gentle transition to the OS that they've been avoiding for so long. OS X (to them) will be 'just like Windows XP' with two important exceptions:

    1. It works.

    2. It's fun.

    2.a. And the computer it's on is cool too!



    My mania about getting my meathooks on a Newton successor is rapidly being replaced by an emerging obsession with the new iMac. Everytime I look at it, and its specs, it just looks better and better.



    But I've first gotta snag two Tangerine iBooks for my 6 and 4 year old red-head little girls.



    Best to all and to all a good night!



    Aries 1B
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  • Reply 106 of 108
    steve666steve666 Posts: 2,600member
    nonsuch:

    The Dock and the Finder don't really have anything to do with each other. If you mean you want windowshading back, there's a $7 haxie called WindowshadeX that will restore it for you. Install that, then set the Dock to Hide (or replace it with a 3rd-party launcher like DragThing) and go on about your business. You can set the Finder to work just like the old one did.





    Sorry, I always say finder when I mean to say application switcher, at the top right hand of OS9............................................... ......
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  • Reply 107 of 108
    Guy Tribble recently (re)integrated Apple : before his position as Vice president of software engeneering at Next, he was

    leading the software engeering staff at Apple, overseeing the Mac OS developpement (mainly framework, GUI and applications). He is a (the) recognized specialist of GUI and wanted to attain the Graal of the perfect GUI runing with Unix.

    It rings some bells : I hope he will improve Aqua to what it can be, the best Graphic User Interface on a computer.
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  • Reply 108 of 108
    I wonder if Jobs ever has meetings where he discusses the trouble with Tribble.



    Ba dum bum.



    You think Guy has ever heard that one? <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
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