Comments on: My three weeks on a Mac http://blog.mithis.net/archives/ubuntu/84-my-three-weeks-on-a-mac Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:10:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Pierre Phaneuf http://blog.mithis.net/archives/ubuntu/84-my-three-weeks-on-a-mac#comment-7150 Pierre Phaneuf Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:35:46 +0000 http://blog.mithis.net/?p=84#comment-7150 The sluggishness of the password box is a Google thing. I also occasionally have to switch to a console and kill off the screen saver dialog box on my Linux workstation, because it goes completely dead on occasion. My Google laptop tends to "beachball" a lot more than my other Mac, so while I don't really know what's up, there's definitely something fishy. The trash is also idiotic in other ways, like when you empty it, but it tells you a file is in use. Just unlink the damned thing and forget about it, will you? Weirdly enough, a lot of Unix/Linux hackers are annoyed by the way applications are a first-class entity, rather than windows, but I like the Mac way better. I thought of hacking my window manager to simulate that based on the WM_CLASS property more than once, but I tend to be okay. When I use a Linux box, I often end up using workspaces in that way. The sluggishness of the password box is a Google thing. I also occasionally have to switch to a console and kill off the screen saver dialog box on my Linux workstation, because it goes completely dead on occasion. My Google laptop tends to “beachball” a lot more than my other Mac, so while I don’t really know what’s up, there’s definitely something fishy.

The trash is also idiotic in other ways, like when you empty it, but it tells you a file is in use. Just unlink the damned thing and forget about it, will you?

Weirdly enough, a lot of Unix/Linux hackers are annoyed by the way applications are a first-class entity, rather than windows, but I like the Mac way better. I thought of hacking my window manager to simulate that based on the WM_CLASS property more than once, but I tend to be okay. When I use a Linux box, I often end up using workspaces in that way.

]]> By: mithro http://blog.mithis.net/archives/ubuntu/84-my-three-weeks-on-a-mac#comment-7024 mithro Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:18:31 +0000 http://blog.mithis.net/?p=84#comment-7024 Actually that was exactly what I was complaining about. In Windows/Linux I can just use Alt-Tab to get to any window, with Mac I have to use two keys to do the same thing! Actually that was exactly what I was complaining about. In Windows/Linux I can just use Alt-Tab to get to any window, with Mac I have to use two keys to do the same thing!

]]> By: Ryan Neufeld http://blog.mithis.net/archives/ubuntu/84-my-three-weeks-on-a-mac#comment-7023 Ryan Neufeld Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:09:26 +0000 http://blog.mithis.net/?p=84#comment-7023 I won't go into a big fanboy rant here (since I've been using my mac for a month or two now and lvoe it) but here is a tip: command-tab (alt-tab) cycles between programs, and command-~ cycles between windows of an application. I won’t go into a big fanboy rant here (since I’ve been using my mac for a month or two now and lvoe it) but here is a tip: command-tab (alt-tab) cycles between programs, and command-~ cycles between windows of an application.

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