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Originally posted by TETENAL: http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/41957.html A long time Mac veteran has written an open letter to Steve Jobs, criticizing Mac OS X. His main points are: [list][*]Installation of Panther takes 3 days |
WTF?
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| [*]Defective RAM isn't detected by the Installer |
Oh, I get it - the first point meant to say that installing Panther should take 3 days. I get it now.
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| [*]Optimization phase during installations takes too long |
Actually, this is a valid point. The prebinding stage isn't really as necessary anymore as it used to be in 10.0 and 10.1.
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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. |
Um... Archive and Install?
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| [*]Millions of libraries are too confusing |
/Library, /System/Library, ~/Library. 3 < a million.
Plus, you only really ever have to deal with two of those: /Library and ~/Library. Gee, separating the Library into two places is so confusing!
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| [*]Fast user switching makes a well-known third party audio program crash. |
Well-known third-party audio program's fault.
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| [*]Something with customising audio-hardware[*]No way to save configurations of Audio MIDI Setup |
Actually, he has a point here as well. The MIDI setup could definitely be improved. Aside with being able to save configurations, I wish it would let me drag the MIDI settings into /Library and have them recognized by all users (for some reason, it doesn't work currently). These are hardware settings, after all...
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| [*]Problems with USB audio hardware, especially after sleep |
AFAIK, it's always been this way. It did this with OS 9, too, at least in my experience. If you don't put the machine to sleep, this doesn't happen.
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| [*]Firewire drives with Oxford 911 chips don't work |
WTF?
That was fixed a long time ago.
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| [*]Windows can only be dragged by grabbing their top |
Well, unless they're brushed metal. Minor point.
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| [*]Files can't contain slashed and question marks |
Yes, they can (to the guy who claimed the actual filename would have colons instead of slashes, you are wrong. The HFS+ path delimiter is the colon, and the actual filenames will have slashes in them, which appears as colons in the Terminal and in Cocoa apps).
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| [*]Copying "_Icon" files sometimes hangs |
Okay, this one's valid. When you copy a folder that has a custom icon to an MS-DOS formatted disk, it bails out, because the invisible icon file has a carriage return in the filename, and the FAT format apparently doesn't like that. It should just go copy the rest of the files and move on instead of abandoning the copy like that.
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| [*]"Optimizing" should also "fix permissions" |
ARGH!!! First he wants the "Optimizing" phase to take less time earlier on, but now he wants to double the time it will take, for this reason:
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| And how about while you're wasting all that time with that "optimizing" thing you do, you take care of that "fix permissions" nonsense so I don't have to do it manually every time I start a studio session? |
You don't! Why must people keep on perpetuating this?
