oh the humility

[qwiddity]

Whats the most annoying thing about arguing with rabid macintosh freaks who think they know everything about computers yet have never opened the 'terminal' application sitting so innocuously in my 'dock' ?
I feel like setting up Jobs or Wozniack with a muchly needed curb stomping or marking them for death. Or better yet just hitting them until they agree with my point of view.
I've spent the better part of two hours attempting to wrestle MacOS X 10.2 into a state where I can use it again after completely destroying my system after changing some graphics. Graphics, I tell you. This from the supposedly invulnerable Aqua interface, using PDF as its image transport. Jesus.
The fact that the mac trackpad capture software is annoyingly out of date and feature-free is irritating me as well.
Whoever thought up the "how to burn CD's in MacOS X" crap in Finder (and what a piece of dung that is) needs a good kicking, although it did make me realise why most mac users need such a 'comprehensive' help program (comprehensively idiotic, that is).
There's been battery issues which are "being dealt with" as well, which lead to my LAPTOP shutting down unexpectedly because the stupid OS thinks it still has plenty of charge left. How hard can that be? Every other battery monitor can get it right. I really hope there's a patch for that soon.
Currently there's 3 things keeping me in MacOS X rather than going to debian: sleep mode, network locations, media and hardware functionality.
If anyone can give me some pointers on how to get these all reliably solid on debian linux, I'd welcome the advice. :)

Comments

Chell!

[tex-indapink.livejournal.com]

I won't stoop so low as to put shite on a Smacintosh user, hehe, but I understand all that stuff works well on PC laptops! Kidding darlin. So you know, I have a new crop of movies and we need to get together about the Recharge ticket for moi too so if you could ET me (phone) p'raps tomorrow evening we can work summat out?

*hugz quids*

[captainnem.livejournal.com]

haha ... you haven't had the 'pleasure' Windows XP can bring. 1 day of that and you will be GLAD for OSX.

It's even got a decent terminal app! Microsoft haven't updated theirs since the year .

[dreeft.livejournal.com]

There are few things in life funnier than seeing a macintosh exit the window of a high level appartment.

please call me if you are planning such an event.

[larcin.livejournal.com]

*pat pat*

If I had a 50 metre network cable (or some sort of wireless/Airport thing happening) I would be trying to harass you online (oh, it's been so long! Oh my, oh me, oh gosh!). Alas, I must use LiveJournal via Jim's computer. *hug*

[gwreddragon.livejournal.com]

So, why in the world did you get a Mac laptop in the first place? I will assume it wasn't by choice.

Linux...is probably the best solution. *grits teeth*

It's like going from preschool to graduate classes. Linux is really a pain, but anything...ANYTHING is better than MacOS.

Share the lovin'

[scattymatty.livejournal.com]

You know, you could have what every girl secretly wants (especially in these times of trouble).

Click here for the makeover to end all makeovers (for your laptop's icons that is, not for you) and, while you're there, Rani might be interested in this.