When I first started using OS X, I felt the need to customise it. I changed a load of icons, I tweaked the dock to be 2d and totally transparent, I installed monitoring software which gave me CPU and memory usage in the menu bar and various other things. I spent a lot of time changing stuff and I found myself looking for new icons for applications because the standard ones were just not good enough.
Since getting the new iMac, I’ve not felt the need to do that at all. I’ve not bothered to install Candybar, I’ve not loaded iStat Menus (or the iStat Pro widget). Everything is left at default.
Is this like my coming of age with OS X? Tweaking, changing things and system monitoring seem like a throwback to Windows where it’s second nature to have active desktops with performance monitoring and I notice many people who have come from Windows tend to do that on their Macs but really, when it comes to the system monitoring, they’re just not needed. I really don’t care what speed my fans are running at, the temperature of my CPU or the CPU utilisation. It’s just not important.
Is anyone else of the same mindset? The ‘meh, it works, why change it’ attitude?
Since getting the new iMac, I’ve not felt the need to do that at all. I’ve not bothered to install Candybar, I’ve not loaded iStat Menus (or the iStat Pro widget). Everything is left at default.
Is this like my coming of age with OS X? Tweaking, changing things and system monitoring seem like a throwback to Windows where it’s second nature to have active desktops with performance monitoring and I notice many people who have come from Windows tend to do that on their Macs but really, when it comes to the system monitoring, they’re just not needed. I really don’t care what speed my fans are running at, the temperature of my CPU or the CPU utilisation. It’s just not important.
Is anyone else of the same mindset? The ‘meh, it works, why change it’ attitude?