OK, I see none of you know where to find a copy of "So Much love" either. Fine then.
So, I haven't noticed much about the Slashdot change. That's because I'm trying to use a Mac as my daily desktop, and everything has looked different for a couple of days anyway. You may recall the screen on my XP laptop got cracked. While I haven't done anything in particular with that machine yet, I needed a new machine for my web browsing, email and such.
I had work buy me an iBook a while back so I had something to get familiar with OS X on. It's the ~$1000 refurb iBook G4 1Ghz. I never used it much, because another guy at work ended up doing all the Mac product QA for me. I'm in charge of QA for the company, and since he was doing work for me, I just kept bribing him with Mac hardware, and he kept doing a great job.
To shorten the story up a bit, I grabbed the iBook back from him (I got him a Titanium Powerbook a while ago as a replacement anyway), and I've spent the last couple of days trying to make it useable for myself.
So far, I'm really, really frustrated. It appears that over that last 20-odd years of using DOS and Windows, I've gotten really used to a lot of keyboard shortcuts and other relatively minor differences, but they really add up. I feel like I'm typing with gloves on. It would be like if I were to start trying to drive a stick shift I've only ever driven automatics. I'm typing something, and errrt, stall. I'm quite used to pretty much unconciously translating what I want to do in my head through my hands and into Windows. Some of my habits go back even to Wordstar on CP/M.
It's not like I haven't used 30 different operatings systems, and still do. But it's different when it's my casual desktop.
Examples: PG-UP, PG-DN, HOME & END keys. They scroll the document, but they don't move the freakin cursor. So if I want to jump to the top of a text editor, I have to HOME, and then go all the way to the trackpad, and click the cursor there. ARGH!
That means I can't shift-END to highlight the rest of the line. Oh, and END doesn't go to the end of the line, it goes to the end of the document... etc.
And DELETE isn't a delete key, it's backspace. At least it's in the right spot on the kb.
And why are the function keys not the main function of that key, and I have to use the fn key to activate it, and the main function is things like volume control? I know a little bit of this is because it's a laptop kb, but still.
OK, so a lot of my keyboard shortcuts are similar, just apple key instead of ALT, fine.
Why isn't Thunderbird more consistent? Why can't I still use Ctrl-T to check for new mail? Why doesn't ctrl-enter send the mail? I don't think those are Windowsisms...
It's painful using apple-C and apple-V for cut-and-paste. I normally use ctrl-ins and shift-ins. I don't even have a INS key here. Gimmie my INS key.
How do I pop the current directory from the shell in Finder? I do "start ." in Windows. I do that ALL THE DAMN TIME.
Why, when a window has been minimized, and I use apple-tab to switch to that app, does the window not pop back up? Why else do you think I switched to that app, dumbass!
Why does xterm ALWAYS pop to the background when I switch to X?
Yes, as far as I'm concerned, the "right" way to do it is DEFINED by how Windows does it. I've known for 15 years that the "best" way to do it is the way you already know how. That became real clear to me when I had to help switch a few thousand people from DOS Word Perfect to Windows & Word back in the day.
How long did it take me to get used to Word? I don't think I was a happy camper then, either.
Bitch whine moan.
So yeah, you may see some lazyweb posts out of me looking for advice from Mac users.
Edit:
And another thing: I've been ctrl-clicking on stuff all day. You know what that means? That means you should have put a right mouse button on here, asshat!