Switching causes Argh

Apple would have you believe that switching from Windows to OS X is like changing socks. It isn't rocket science, but there are bound to be stumbling blocks, though since I have been using both Windows and OS X on a daily basis for years I tend to forget this little fact.

Robyn Peterson writes about his five 'argh' moments as he switches from Windows XP to OS X. Most of them are slight annoyances, but I do agree with him about OS X's lackluster support for auto-mounting network resources without using a work around (unless I am missing a setting somewhere).

[via Paul Thurrott]

(The picture accompanying this post is from here, in case you were wondering).

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Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1986689,00.asp

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Caesartheday

4 Arghs in a week. Not bad.
456,235,345.5 Arghs in 10 years of using Windows. Sensless!

And that's why I'm an Apple Kool-Aid drinking, into the hype buying, apple sticker on my work IBM Thinkpad tauting, iEverything loving switcher.

July 12 2006 at 2:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

chris

What's with this Kool-Aid thing? Why does it have get mentioned on every second switcher article?

It's really getting on my nerves.

July 12 2006 at 5:52 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

henrrrik

Yeah, network shares isn't handled very well in OS X. I was disappointed that they didn't sort it out for 10.4. A bit surprising since Steve and the Apple OS X engineers must be using mounted shares themselves.

July 12 2006 at 4:15 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Allan White

My hate: watching OS X lock up when a mounted share has been disconnected. This happens to me all the time when I have a laptop mounted on my G5 (or vice versa), and I disconnect it without checking. Why the lockup? SBB for like, several minutes. Ridiculous.

July 12 2006 at 2:16 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

AndyL

Heck, I'm a diehard Mac user and I *still* get "argh" moments from OS X.

July 12 2006 at 1:21 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Sheir

I recently switched to a Mac from Windows. I guess the only problem I had was figuring out how to install stuff. After that it was easy and I like it a lot more than Windows.

July 12 2006 at 1:00 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Michel

do not try to recreate Windows with os X or Linux

if you want Windows, than.. Windows is VERY Fine to be Windows.

July 11 2006 at 7:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

DarkStar_DS9

Ah... AirPort. My own "switcher-diary" reads "... After typing my WLAN-password a hundred times (ok, more like ten) I figured that the wizard is only for simple setups; it seems that 'hide network' and 'use WPA-PSK' is a little too high-tech for this wizard...".

But it is probably my fault, somehow (thnx #4) ;)

July 11 2006 at 6:10 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Steven

I use Windows at work and a MBP at home.

Systemsboy: try the 'net use' command...no reboots needed

July 11 2006 at 5:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

systemsboy

I kind of agree that the Mac's Network view is not everything it could be, but then neither is Windows'. While it's true that Windows shares are always accessible once you've authenticated, the downside is that there is no way to UN-mount or RE-mount a Windows share (like, say, if you want to connect as a different user) without rebooting (that I know of anyway). Which may explain why the author kept rebooting his system. As a cross-platform lab/network admin, I still prefer the OS X way of handling shares to Windows'. Though it could be better, it's really not too bad.

-systemsboy

July 11 2006 at 5:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply