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I bought a MacBook on Monday, and I can't see why everyone goes on about how easy to use it is - I've used Windows XP & Vista, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, SuSE, Slackware, the list goes on, and have used desktops like Gnome, KDE, Xfce, E17, Icewm and Fluxbox, and the OS X desktop is far and away the least intuitive I have ever used. Things aren't well signposted, and there's no one menu I can go to for a list of all the applications unless I actually use Finder to look in the applications folder, Spotlight is nowhere near as powerful as its KDE equivalent, Katapult, and installing applications is far more hassle than using the package manager in Kubuntu. Admittedly, it does look nice, but any Linux distro can look nicer with very little effort. And there's not even a basic word processor installed with it - would it kill Apple to preinstall OpenOffice?

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3 months, 3 weeks ago by Matthew D.

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    Stephen M. Stephen M. replied Jun 21st
    their is a reason why they say "fanboys" are blind to the truth, I have never used the mac interface but to defend it for a split second (and no more) maybe it is just new and different and takes some getting used to?
  • Matthew D. Matthew D. replied Jun 21st
    True, and I'm sure that given time I'll get used to it. If not, then it will be bye-bye OS X for that MacBook and Hello Linux!
    I have to say though, they do get a lot of things right - they include a decent IDE on the install disk, it comes with Apache and Ruby on Rails preinstalled so it would be great for software development, and it has both Vim and Emacs included. But the terminal is pretty basic (it's xterm, not a patch on Yakuake, my terminal of choice). And the dock is not that great - I've used AWN and believe me, that is far more powerful and flexible than the OS X dock.

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