Windows withdrawal

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Hi All,

Is it quite normal to experience windows withdrawal symptoms after first switching to a mac and OSX ? :p

I recently took delivery of my first ever mac, an 27" imac. It's a beautiful machine but i sometimes miss windows. Probably because i knew it so well. I feel kind of restricted in osx but i have no idea why. Weird really.
 
I have never looked back, sometimes at work when i have to mess around with windows i get really annoyed now and find myself saying to my colleague "you would have to fanny about like this with a mac" :D
 
I'm very much like JAMAL, I only use Windows under a VM for the handful of non OS X apps I have and I often sit and look at my work laptop and curse it. I've got a Windows 7 bootcamp partition that I never boot into!

I don't miss Windows at all, I certainly don't have any withdrawal symptoms from it.
 
I never looked back. The only thing that gets me booting into Windows is games. Windows is a needlessly elaborate games console as far as I'm concerned.
 
I know what you mean yes, its just doesnt seem to sit right for awhile, Ill be honest ive changed nearly everything over to Mac, and it still doesnt sit right some of the time, but mostly im still learning Mac as ive only been using them for about a year and thats when I get to use it at home as all work is Pc stuff, so it could be that im being pulled either way from Home stuff and Work stuff, never settled....

...im Bi-OS's lol
 
You're missing all the tweaking and options you need to change on Windows to get it working how you like it. Whereas on Mac OS X everything pretty much works out of the box how you'd expect it to, so now you're left with nothing but using the OS for work/fun. :)
 
The only thing I miss about Windows is the window management. I find it it to make much more sense on Windows along with the task bar. You end up ballsing around with windows in OS X and the 'maximize' button is a good example of the flawed thinking. Apart from that, I'm happy.
 
Slogan said:
and the 'maximize' button is a good example of the flawed thinking.
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[rant]It's not a maximize button, it's a zoom button[/rant] :D

But I know what you mean, hence your ' around maximize. But really, it's not supposed to do the same as in Windows.
 
Slogan said:
The only thing I miss about Windows is the window management. I find it it to make much more sense on Windows along with the task bar. You end up ballsing around with windows in OS X and the 'maximize' button is a good example of the flawed thinking. Apart from that, I'm happy.
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Expose is better than anything on Windows.
 
At first when I had my iMac I was gobsmacked by it I generally didn't have any withdrawal symptoms up until recently realising £1650 on a NEW Mac would be a complete waste for me in this point in time.. and would be better spent on a PC... considering around 2 years without proper gaming can be really get a bit bland.

Obviously there was bootcamp, but it was just annoying having to boot in and out, and I didn't like it. :)

Apart from lack of Gaming and the lack of .exe, I am adamant that OS X is superior for my personal needs in almost every way.. browsing, MS Office, GUI, Files, dvds, movies, you name it.
 
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I had that for a few weeks (this was a good few years ago now), I missed doing the rubbish day to day tasks that I used to in windows. But then I found things to play with like customising Adium, playing with different browsers and browsing here for cool new applications to play with.
 
See I have been trialing OSX for a couple of weeks spending my time in the evenings using it instead of Windows to get used to the OS and I have to say it's very very nice.

I have experienced a few teething issues in Window management with regards to the dock. Although a setting exists in preferences that allows Windows to minimize to the icon (a la 7) instead of a mix of the applications side of the dock and the files/folders side on the right.

I found it really backward not having the 'snaps' functionality builtin. Third part software has cured this but seeing how I multimonitor between my laptop and my bigger screen not being able to pull Windows seamlessly between the two by default seems a little backward to me.

One thing I do like is the standardisation of applications. Where they adhere to Apple's strict human interface guidelines is more effective than in Windows I'd say.
It's convenient to always have Preferences in the same place across all applications.

The biggest issue I have is with Office for Mac, until Microsoft make a decent version of equal quality to the Windows counterpart then that is my only real issue.

Not having Foobar (without faffing with Wine) is one thing I found hard to stomach at first but seeing how I have an iPhone and an iPod I need to use iTunes anyway so I guess that consolidation of applications is best overall.:)

I do have one query, what is the equivalent of Services in Windows? I have seen Activity Monitor but I'm looking into disabling unecessary services such as Bonjour from running.
 
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Guess it depends on how you organise your day to day workflow. Being a lifelong Windows user from day one, getting a Macbook in August 2009 changed everything and I rarely use my main PC as a result. It is only used for RTS gaming and Steam titles.

The only day to day task that irks me on OSX is the whole 'cut/copy & paste' thing which is rather cumbersome vs windows.
 
feriso said:
Clumbersome? Its nigh on the same, either right click and select, or press apple+c, or apple+v :confused:
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Apart from there is no cut. Which means going back and cleaning up files if you didn't want to have multiple copies. Hardly the biggest problem in the world, but it can still be annoying.
 
I've only tried leopard on a hackintosh and found my big annoyance was having the application menus always on the top bar pretty annoying if you have a big screen.
 
My mum bought me a copy of Windows 7 for Christmas, and it's sat in a drawer in the house.

I have no need to put it on, so I'll keep it until I build a gaming PC in the next few years.

deadite66 said:
I've only tried leopard on a hackintosh and found my big annoyance was having the application menus always on the top bar pretty annoying if you have a big screen.
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Keyboard shortcuts are your friend.
 
feriso said:
Clumbersome? Its nigh on the same, either right click and select, or press apple+c, or apple+v :confused:
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mr.sly said:
Apart from there is no cut. Which means going back and cleaning up files if you didn't want to have multiple copies. Hardly the biggest problem in the world, but it can still be annoying.
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Sorry, the above was what I meant. The Cut option exists in Finder but for me it has always been greyed out. Doing clean ups on moved files gets a tad annoying after a while.
 
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