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Home Forums MacNN Mac Veteran Writes Open Letter to Steve Jobs: Criticizing OS X — #4
Post #4 by sieb
Source ForumMacNN
CategoryTroubleshooting
Post DateMon, 11 Apr 2005 - 09:22
Original URLhttps://web.archive.org/web/20050520073743/https://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=251607
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[*]Installation of Panther takes 3 days

Since when? My install took 10 mins.

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[*]Defective RAM isn't detected by the Installer

What OS installer does?

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[*]Optimization phase during installations takes too long

So...

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[*]System updates can't be reversed. Only way to go back is to wipe the disk which means loss of user data.

This I agree with, but I haven't had an update go bad on me yet..

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[*]Millions of libraries are too confusing

So..

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[*]Fast user switching makes a well-known third party audio program crash.

Thats a third party problem then...

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[*]Something with customising audio-hardware[*]No way to save configurations of Audio MIDI Setup[*]Problems with USB audio hardware, especially after sleep[*]Firewire drives with Oxford 911 chips don't work

Whine some more..

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[*]Windows can only be dragged by grabbing their top

Same as other OSs.. so..

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[*]Files can't contain slashed and question marks

Thats a unix limitation

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[*]Copying "_Icon" files sometimes hangs[*]"Optimizing" should also "fix permissions"

Um.. alright.. I am sure that the list of things it does well far exceeds this little list of nonesense. Looks like he had to dig hard to find anything bad. Let me guess, he still uses OS9 since its a "good os"....?
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