I think PLUG is an anomaly. It seems most people display snippety arrogance
rather than help.
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Josef Lowder <
joe@actionline.com> wrote:
> In response to the subject problem, someone wrote:
> > Buy a Mac? ;)
>
> That is obviously not helpful.
>
> I did buy a macbook 15" a few weeks ago and found it to be weird and
> totally unsatisfactory for many, many reasons ... beyond its
> over-priced, under-valued, worse than M$ proprietary-ness.
>
> So after a couple of weeks of trying to make some sense out its
> incredibly non-intuitive arbitrariness, I sold it and I certainly will
> not be going down that confusing road again.
>
> macs may be fine for music and videos and just playing around, but I
> could not get even simple serious work tasks to work efficiently or
> reasonably. Disabling most "normal" CTRL key functions and
> substituting that silly mac "X" key in such an anatomically
> inconvenient location ... and disallowing simple window resizing from
> any side or corner are just two of many dozens of examples.
>
> To each his/her own.
>
> A few mac-types that I encountered during my brief foray into mac-land
> tried to be helpful; however, from far too many others, I found that
> one is more likely to experience snippety arrogance rather than
> constructive help.
>
> At least from most plug friends, one usually gets constructive help.
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