What made you switch from PC's to Macs?

[johne53]

I'm not sure if I'd agree with everything you've said and I can't say that I even recognise some of the problems you described. For example, Finder lets me right-click on my files and then select "Get Info" which shows me their size and various other things. However I do agree with your conclusion. Macs seem to be designed primarily for people who don't want too many options. In most cases, you're only offered one way of doing things and you either do it that way or you do without it.

For example, it still infuriates me that you can only resize a window by dragging its bottom-right corner. You can't drag any other corner, or the top or bottom edges or the sides. It's that kind of limitation that's so frustrating if you've come from a PC.

Selecting text with my mouse is another mega frustration. It works fine if you select forwards (i.e. position your cursor at the start of the first word, then drag to the end of the wanted section). But if I try to select in a backwards direction, 9 times out of 10 it will select the wrong text or miss a few letters off the end. And don't get me started about the limited choice of hardware and peripherals!

There seems to be a general assumption by Apple that as long as there's one option that works, it doesn't really matter if the other options are half-baked, or if they don't work properly, or even if there are no alternative options available at all. And there's no recognition at all of the fact that different people are different and that most people like to experiment with a few alternatives and pick the one that suits them. Quite the opposite in fact. The assumption seems to be that every user should be forced to work the Steve Jobs way, whether it suits them or not. Admittedly, this does lead to an easy learning curve (which is probably the principle behind it) but in the longer term it also leaves a lot of users feeling restricted and frsutrated.