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Apple users who never change the dock (Page 2)
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Originally Posted by Wiskedjak
I'm not saying Windows is easier. I'm just saying that MacOS isn't quite as dead simple as it's painted to be. And, if there weren't all sort of undocumented interactions, there would be no need for the macosxhints.com website.
It's not dead simple. There's nearly nothing in computing that is. Even iOS isn't dead simple - I've had to explain to some people how apps and the Home button work. As for Mac OS X Hints, it doesn't document anything that is basic and essential to the user experience. I doubt there's any hint explaining how a disk image works. You could probably only find something like that in a Macs for Dummies book.
Mac OS X Hints does cover "undocumented interactions," not things an average user would ever need to do. And trust me, there are far more undocumented interactions on Windows than on the Mac, and unfortunately for Windows I haven't found sites as nice as Mac OS X Hints documenting them.
I don't know that I've ever encountered a Windows installer that was compressed in a .rar file that wasn't pirated through Bittorrent.
Strange, I run into them constantly. I'm constantly interacting with WinRAR, and this is for direct downloads from software vendors.
I don't know if you've noticed, but more and more software for MacOS are coming with multiple screens of stupidity in order to get your app installed ... including software from Apple
That's true - there are exceptions where application bundles aren't used, but software in that category is a small minority.
What's more, Windows software doesn't *need* to go through an installer, it's just the way that 99.999% of the software makers decide to go.
99.999% seems pretty necessary. But you're right, not all Windows software uses installers (see next point below), but it's what users expect as the norm on that platform.
No way to claim that, except perhaps to read the first half of this thread. I guarantee you that almost no Windows user is launching the installer every time they want to run the app.
Actually, there is a parallel on the Windows side. I've sometimes chosen to "Run" software that opens up directly instead of opening an installer. Then when I've closed it, I've wondered why I can't find it again. I've realized that by choosing Run in the browser instead of save, I've been running the software in a temp folder that gets deleted, so when it's closed it's gone.
I'll give a little ground by saying that disk images aren't "idiot proof," even though they're really, really simple. If every app did a sanity check to see if it got launched from the disk image and offer to install in the applications folder if it did (like some software apparently does), then it would be idiot proof. But I personally don't need or expect really easy interfaces to be both easy and idiot proof, but that's just me.
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I think it probably would help in system preferences if they offered videos.
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Originally Posted by Big Mac
I'll give a little ground by saying that disk images aren't "idiot proof," even though they're really, really simple. If every app did a sanity check to see if it got launched from the disk image and offer to install in the applications folder if it did (like some software apparently does), then it would be idiot proof. But I personally don't need or expect really easy interfaces to be both easy and idiot proof, but that's just me.
The point isn't whether they're "simple". The point is whether they're DISCOVERABLE, and SELF-EXPLANATORY.
I can't believe you've forgotten how interface works in your relatively short stint on Windows.
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Originally Posted by Salty
I think it probably would help in system preferences if they offered videos.
They do for the external track pad, I think.
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Originally Posted by brassplayersrock²
They do for the external track pad, I think.
They also do for the internal track pad.
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Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot
They also do for the internal track pad.
lulz
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