> On Jan 8, 2023, at 7:12 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> Then last March, I started a new job and for a couple of months I used >> Windows 10 as my daily machine. That cured me of any desire to use Windows >> at home. > > It's obvious to me, Larry, that you are not a macOS user … you buy the > machines purely because Apple has a BSD Unix interface embedded into macOS. > Otherwise your "twenty years of using Macs" would demonstrate a lot more > familiarity with actual macOS features and workflow methodologies.
This is exactly the attitude I was mentioning, if someone wants to do something other than the Cupertino way, they are apostate. Actually, the reason I have a mac is that when I got it, it was easier to get a mac than to get screen calibration software working on Linux. At the time, a friend worked at Adobe, I was able to buy lightroom for a very attractive price, then got sucked down that rabbit hole. > > macOS is *not* about the command-line processing in the Terminal app, or > bash, or emacs, or any of that stuff. Those are the underpinnings of macOS, > not the user interface of macOS. This is where the "what is an Operating System?" debate gets interesting. > > A macOS user that needs to edit a particular expression across a whole bunch > of files doesn't use the Finder, obviously, because the Finder isn't intended > for such an operation. They might use a standalone code editor (BBEdit and > others), they might use Automator, they might use the Apple development > system (Xcode) and all its editing features. They would only use the Terminal > app and command line operations if their work and expertise was confined to > running a Unix system. Odd that you mention work. I needed to do this for work. I was actually trying to use my mac for work rather than play. > > I'm sorry you didn't find a Windows 10 environment more pleasing to you. That > means you need to buy generic hardware and install Linux on it, rather than > waste your time (and everyone else's) complaining about macOS and Apple > products. I'm actually sitting pretty much equidistant between my Linux box and two of my macs. They each have advantages. The Linux box is generally better for technical work, writing Operating Systems, Embedded systems software and suchlike. The mac is better for photography. I haven't yet found anything that for me Windows is better at. Just because something is good at some tasks doesn't mean that there aren't things to complain about. I could write a book about my complaints about the Pentax UI, but it still seems to suck less than any other digital camera UI that I've wrestled with. Some of the words I used when changing the oil on a Miata would have even made you blush, but I own two of them, my fourth and fifth. And to be honest I can't think of anyone I've dated that I haven't had complaints about. Saying that I'm not a MacOS user because I use different features more than some people is like saying that I'm not a Miata driver because I upgraded the brakes, modified the seat and added a rollbar before driving it on a track. -- Larry Colen [email protected]. sent from Mirkwood -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
