Point take over menubars. Thing is, I just don't like them much at all, anywhere. On my screen at the moment, there are 4 windows, tiled, and none of them has a menu bar (not even Opera; it's turned it off, as I never use it). Of the four, only Opera is in any way graphical - the rest are 2 xterms, and an Emacs. And I also have a 4-screen virtual desktop (and have had for so long I forget when I started using it) that wraps in all directions, so any kind of edge-triggered menu/taskbar/whatever doesn't work for the way I work. The only regular use I make of the mouse is moving between windows, and clicking links in Opera.
When I first got the G3, I tried it the MacOS way for a few months. Yes, it was very pretty, and I could certainly see the attraction. But I slowly realised that I just couldn't live with the default behaviours, and I found them to be getting in the way, and causing frustration -- probably because I've been doig things the X11 way for so long. I simply can't get used to click-to-focus, or having to explicitly cut before paste, rather than just select, the paste. So, obviously Windows drives me nuts as well (as do the current default behaviours of Gnome and KDE - not that I use either of them).
I suspect that if I could have altered a little more of MacOS's behaviour to suit me, I would still be using it in preference to Linux, but as I can't, I'm not, and I don't see me returning any time soon. Although I can see myself buying a dual processot G4 or G5 as a serious proccesing engine.
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Date: 2007-11-12 06:07 pm (UTC)When I first got the G3, I tried it the MacOS way for a few months. Yes, it was very pretty, and I could certainly see the attraction. But I slowly realised that I just couldn't live with the default behaviours, and I found them to be getting in the way, and causing frustration -- probably because I've been doig things the X11 way for so long. I simply can't get used to click-to-focus, or having to explicitly cut before paste, rather than just select, the paste. So, obviously Windows drives me nuts as well (as do the current default behaviours of Gnome and KDE - not that I use either of them).
I suspect that if I could have altered a little more of MacOS's behaviour to suit me, I would still be using it in preference to Linux, but as I can't, I'm not, and I don't see me returning any time soon. Although I can see myself buying a dual processot G4 or G5 as a serious proccesing engine.