Help a PC guy understand a Mac

If that sort of thing bothers you, the option to turn off the copying of pictures into your iPhoto library is located in the Advanced tab of the iPhoto Preferences.

iPhoto does nothing for me that GraphicConverter doesn’t do a hell of a lot better.

And it doesn’t behave as if it thinks it knows better than I do where to store my goddam files.

Replacing iTunes is trickier. They seriously need some modern competition. I’m still using Audion (and, therefore, Rosetta and, therefore, Snow Leopard)

Even we Mac people had a steep learning curve of our own, switching from OS9 to OSX. But everything new eventually became simple. I could not go back to OS9, and hope I never need to.

And I agree, iTunes and iPhoto are the devil’s spawn, especially iTunes, and especially transferring from a (PowerPC) G5 to an (Intel) Mac Pro.

I disagree - I’ve worked as an office administrator for 15 years now, and I’m very good at organizing my files on my hard drive so things don’t get lost. My Mac is not as good at it as I am, in spite of Apple thinking that they know better than I do how I want my files organized. The multiple copies thing is quite irritating, too.

I’ve never used iPhoto because I’ve been using QPict since Mac OS 8. It rocks.

I use the terminal more than anything, but one thing that always bothered me immensely about the Mac gui is that when you close all the windows you do NOT terminate the process, you have to go down the dock and specially “quit” it.

I got used to that very quickly - given that you use Terminal so much, why don’t you just quit the application with Cmd-Q rather than click all over the screen closing multiple windows and closing the program from the dock?

Actually, I usually just do top->kill pid now.

Command - q

This is the 1st keyboard shortcut you learn.

But you made my point for me. You have done something for so long, a new system drives you nuts… but I get it. I just find Apple haters funny.
“My old car’s headlight button is on the left side, why do these foreign cars put it on the right?” or something like that…

Exact opposite problem going from Mac to Windows: "Dammit, why do I have to keep relaunching everything? :stuck_out_tongue:

. . . after Command Z.

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No, she didn’t. She stated that her system is more efficient than the one Apple imposes on you. She did not say she had trouble using the other system, just that it was less efficient.

The problem is that a computer program has no right to tell you how to do things. It is a tool designed to be used by you. It’s like having a hammer that’s head falls off if you tilt it back, and so the manufacturer says you can’t tilt it back. Yet people accept this in software.

Apple does not impose a file management system on you. In applications like iTunes and iPhoto, you have options to let it manage the system for you, but you can turn those options off. If you do, then you have the same folder hierarchy system used by every computer system that I know of.

As for the hammer example… yes, that’s exactly why I’ve generally preferred Apple. Microsoft says “Just don’t tilt it back” while Apple says “Let’s build a hammer that works… no, wait… we don’t need either hammers or nails if we redesign the boards. Let’s just build boards that work.”