Got introduced to this wonderful article on how Un-User Friendly Max OS X actually is.
Dont jump with your knifes and sword onto me, i am just posting what the actual author has posted.
But go through the entire article. Your time will not be wasted. I was actually thinking of getting a Mac someday and run Windows using Bootcamp. But now, after reading this, i doubt i really want to do that.
Original Source - Mac OS X Flaws.: Mac OS X Is Not User-Friendly!
Dont jump with your knifes and sword onto me, i am just posting what the actual author has posted.
But go through the entire article. Your time will not be wasted. I was actually thinking of getting a Mac someday and run Windows using Bootcamp. But now, after reading this, i doubt i really want to do that.
Original Source - Mac OS X Flaws.: Mac OS X Is Not User-Friendly!
Things OS X Cannot Do
Right Click to Create Text Files: You have to open TextEdit, create a file, navigate to the right folder, and save as...just to create a stupid file. There is a plugin, but it doesn't work that well. Note: textClipping is NOT a solution. See my comment below. Also see my comment for why you need to create an empty file. I am aware of third-party plugins. They do not completely solve the problem. I will describe that another time.
Set a picture as background: You certainly cannot select a picture in finder to set it as background. No app in OS X lets you do that. You have to use go through a long series of clicks in desktop background settings and manually find your file. The only other way is to open your image file in firefox and set as background. iPhoto can do it, it's very counter-intuitive to use iPhoto to organize non-photos such as wallpapers.
Choose entire folders to be wallpapers: You can add a folder, but SUBFOLDERS ARE NOT INCLUDED. That means you can't manually organize your wallpapesr. Again, iPhoto is useless for anything but photos, so unless all your wallpapers are photos, don't expect iPhoto to be a solution.
Merging folders: (See a comment below for why you need to do this) When you copy a folder, if the new location contains a folder of the same name, there is no way to merge the folders. Instead, Finder overwrites the original folder with the new one. All files in the original folder are lost. The only way to get around this is to use the unix mv -v command....very user unfriendly design.
Some commenters said it's idiotic to have the ability to merge... Well, i hope you don't think people who invented the mv command are idiotic too for including the option.
Basic Things You Need Plugins For (Update: The plugin name in parenthesis):
* Uninstall: Just dragging the application to trash doesn't delete the preference files associated with it. (AppTrap)
* Preventing your computer from going to sleep when you close the lid. If you have external keyboard and mouse hooked up, you can obviously wake the computer back up. But if you're downloading something that cannot be resumed, for example, then you really really don't want the OS to go to sleep when you're switching to a desktop environment. (InsomniaX)
* Resize your window from other than the bottom right corner. (forgot the name of the plugin)
* Open Terminal in any folder from finder, so that the working directory starts in that folder. (forgot the name, but it somehow opens two terminal windows if you don't already have one open)
* There is No Stereo Mix.
(For those of you who don't know, it's for redirecting sound output into sound input, so you can, for example, record the sound output, or have Tunatic identify your music. )
There is a plugin called Soundflower, but it's impossible to both redirect sound and play the it at the same time.
* Cannot turn off mouse acceleration. You need to buy software like USB Overdrive.
Trash is Broken
Cannot selectively delete trash: There is no way to delete one or several items in trash at a time. (useful when you want to double check the items one at a time before you actually delete them). You can only empty all the trash at once.
Cannot restore trash: If you accidentally moved something to trash by accident, there is no option to restore the file to its original location. You have to remember where it was. Why do you even need trash if you can't even restore what you deleted to where it was? If you accidentally deleted a file buried deep in the filesystem, does it make sense to drag it back to....for example...Desktop??
Do not just tell me "why would you ever want it back if you put it in the Trash"...If you don't ever delete a file by mistake, then Trash should be disabled.
Cannot disable trash: Even though trash sucks so much, there is no way to disable
it. There is no way to delete files directly without moving to trash in finder's GUI. The quickest way to quick-delete a file is to use Command-Backspace to delete it and Command-Shift-Backspace to empty Trash (Your application focus has to be the Finder). Two step process...
Finder is Broken
There is no cut: There is no "cut" option like in all other OS. So to move a file you have navigate to the destination in a separate Finder window and drag to it, or drag while navigating in the same Finder window through many folders and hope you don't miss.
Can't calculate total size: When you select some files in a folder and right click -> Get Info to find the total size, Finder displays a box for EACH item with the individual sizes.
That's not what I want. I don't want to manually add up the file sizes.
Update: Cmd-Alt-I. Lets you do that. Hmmmm 3 keystrokes, undocumented, and not an easy way to use mouse to do something this common (or maybe no way at all). On the other hand, I can't see any uses of showing a info box for every file you highlighted. A good list/column view with file details should eliminate this need. Besides, it becomes annoying to close all those info boxes because you can't use Cmd-W on them like on other Finder Windows.
Bad selection of shortcuts: Enter is rename, Command-O is open. Inefficient. The action that you do more requires more keystrokes. What kind of files are renamed more than opened? This is not a "not used to OS X" issue. It's a issue of choosing the key with less keystrokes for the more common action.
Can't do quick keyboard navigation because you can't press enter to go into a subfolder. By this I mean typing the first letter of a folder name, press enter, type the first letter of the subfolder name, enter...etc... You cannot do this in OS X for 2 reasons: 1)Command-O is less convenient to enter because it requires 2 keys 2)After you Command-O, pressing a letter key navigates to a folder of the same LEVEL, not the subfolder. This is true at least in Column View.
More bad selection of shortcuts: Backspace should be move up a level in finder, not back. Moving up a level is used more often. Having to press 2 keys for it (Cmd-Up) is dumb.
Hard to rename files anyway: You cannot rename files in succession. In windows, you would press F2, rename, tab to the next file, rename... etc. In Finder, you have to: enter, name, enter, downarrow, enter, name, enter...etc. That's THREE extra keystrokes for every additional file. (enter, down, enter)
Even harder to mass rename: There is no way select all files, rename them, and have finder append a number after each file like in Vista. Such a simple task shouldn't require automator.
Limited icon size: In icon view, the largest icon size is 128x128 (except in search mode), useless for previewing documents and image files. Yes, there is quicklook, but what if you want to preview multiple files at a time?
Hard to change icon size: It's even harder to change the icon size. You have to go to view options, which requires many clicks or Cmd-J. But the fact that you need to go to a preference dialog to change icon size shows the UI is pretty limited. You need to change preview size depending on the things you're previewing more often than you would want to go in to the view options. (except in search mode, where there is a scroll bar to dynamically change size.).
Bad Spacing: The spaces between icons are too big. If you reduce the spacing (In view options again), the filenames are unnecessarily truncated.
Hard to view metadata: Most views don't show file metadata (size, dimensions, created..etc). Only column view and search mode's icon view have them.
Column view has problems: Let's say you're previewing through a bunch of images in quicklook and deleting the unwanted ones. (so you're pressing down arrow for next file)
When you press cmd-backspace to delete one file, the focus is BACK TO THE PARENT FOLDER. You have to remember and manually navigate to where you left off. If you press the right key (or down key, I forgot), it goes back to the first file in the subfolder.
File transfers don't display transfer rate
Cluttered list view: You can easily clutter up the list view by expanding too many folders. There is no way to automatically collapse all of them. You're stuck with a messed up view. (Update: someone pointed out: Command-A, Left.)
Sorting: Folders are not always at the top when arranging by kind in list view. Need to edit a system file to achieve this. Even if the folders happen to be on top when you sort by kind, you cannot sort by an additional column.
Spotlight sucks
No customization: There are only 3 columns in spotlight search list view. So hard to find information about these files.
No customization: Cannot choose specific extensions or sizes to include/exclude from index. Only a limited preset of types.
Cannot search while indexing: And indexing takes forever.
Bad Calculator Syntax: 2^3 doesn't work. It has to be pow(2,3). I think that's the syntax
for C? Well I shouldn't have to deal with it.
Bad Navigation
No single key delete: It's Cmd-backspace. Delete should be more accessible.
Cannot close property/option dialogs with cmd-w: Inconsistent with other Finder windows.
No consistent shortcut to switch tabs: Firefox, terminal, adium..all have different shortcuts for those. You can probably customize some, but what is the point of having different shortcuts in the first in the first place? They are all TABS. They serve the same purpose. You can remap them, sure, but you have to do that for every non-conforming app. No shortcut for tabs in preference dialogs, either.
Two ways to press a button: Enter = press highlighted/default button. Space = press bordered button. Confusing. Why can't I use arrow keys to move the highlight? Why do you still need the default button highlighted when you knowingly moved away from it? What do you achieve less by simply having ONE highlighted button, and have the highlight movable by arrow key?
Smart folder is not folder like: This means you cannot navigate into it in any application other than Finder, or a Finder based dialog box. Update: Ok. looks like you can. But I remember not being able to do some folder-based things on a smart folder. I'll get back to this later.
Waste of Screen Space
Most applications take up too much vertical resolution: Why can't they have smaller icons? (even after choosing small icons in most apps, they take more space than necessary). Some apps have the rectangular button on the upper right to compact the UI. It doesn't exist for other apps, For example... Safari.
Dock takes up too much space: If it's big, it takes up too much space. If it's small, it's impossible to tell one application from another, especially for minimized windows.
Slow unhide: Since it takes up so much space to be usable, I want to hide it. But the there is a long delay to unhide when you hover your mouse in the right place. Not customizable.
Finder again: List view (and other views) seem take the same space to display less files than other OS. (Windows, KDE Dolphin) There is no way to reduce font size below 8 points, and spacing is too much.
Can't hide menu bar: There is no default way to hide the top menu bar to save space. (yesssssssssss you need to do this for a 1280x800 macbook) (Many apps don't need a menu) You can use presentMyApps. But the keyboard shortcut to launch spotlight no longer works when the menu bar is hidden.
Window Management (see my other post)
No Show Desktop: The way Expose does it leaves parts of the windows on the screen until you undo it. This is not just a personal preference. This means show desktop is designed as a temporary way to access the Desktop. You eventually have to undo it. I think Cmd Opt click on desktop hides all windows, but it doesn't hide Finder.
No option to show windows side by side: You have to manually move and resize the windows, which is hard because you can only resize from the bottom right corner.
Can't open another window for the same app with mouse: You can do cmd-N or cmd-T all you want. But there is no consistent place to open a new window with a MOUSE CLICK.(Clicking on the icon in the dock only selects the app). If your hand doesn't happen to be on the keyboard, shouldn't you be able to one click open a new window?
Expose doesn't include minimized windows: So it's useless for showing ALL open windows. You have to check the minimized ones manually.
Hide and Minimize: So an application can be in 4 states. Closed, Open with windows showing, open with no window showing, and open with some windows minimized. If you forgot about some windows being minimized, you'll probably do cmd-Q on the app to close it.
Separate minimized icons: Logically, windows belonging to an app shouldn't be shown separately from the app's dock icon.
Hard to cycle between windows: Using Expose requires an extra click (and it doesn't show minimized windows) Cmd-Tab switches between applications. Who needs to do that if you application doesn't have a window open? Cmd- ~ is limited to windows of the same application. Witcher is a third-party software that enables per window switching. It's no longer freeware. (And it didn't work that well for me)
The Plus Button: 1) There is no keyboard shortcut for it. 2)Sometimes it's useful, but other times the app can't judge the proper size. It's mostly inconsistent. Firefox just uses it to maximize.
You Need Maximize: Just having the plus button won't do. On a low resolution macbook screen, a "minimal proper size" is almost the full screen anyway, you can't do much with the space left. So why not take up the whole screen? A lot of webpages and documents do not have a fixed correct size because they resize dynamically with the window.
