IE is a Microsoft program and is completely shite on the Mac. The Mac Firefox was also very poor last time I used it (1.1 or so) -- I understand it's improved but the password management was so badly designed when I used it that I am not inclined to try again. They are both examples of 'non-Mac-like' programs, which are rare on the Mac.
I use Camino; others like Safari or OmniWeb. There is no shortage of good Mac browsers.
On the 'not being able to work out how to do things I want to do', that's not actually a criticism of the Mac, is it?
The reasons why I was using IE and Firefox was that I couldn't work out how to find other programs and I found it a bitch to install anything on the Mac. Maybe I didn't persevere (sp?) long enough. It was also frustrating knowing that OS X is based on a *nix style OS and yet I couldn't even find a shell. I found the Mac incredibly counter-intuitive - and this is from someone who has used a range of Linux and Unix machines and tends to use non-standard window managers for Linux. I normally love things that are a little different to use. I was so excited to be able to try out a Mac but it really let me down. So yes, not being able to work out how to do things is a criticism, because Linux seems ten times easier despite being supposedly less user friendly.
I love Mac hardware though. I'd love to get myself a Mac Mini. Of course, the first thing I'd do would be to put the Mac version of Ubuntu on it.
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andrewducker) wrote2007-02-21 05:33 pm
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I use Camino; others like Safari or OmniWeb. There is no shortage of good Mac browsers.
On the 'not being able to work out how to do things I want to do', that's not actually a criticism of the Mac, is it?
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I love Mac hardware though. I'd love to get myself a Mac Mini. Of course, the first thing I'd do would be to put the Mac version of Ubuntu on it.