Knife the Mac

I consider myself to be an equal-oportunity operating system lover. I generally feel that all operating systems, whether they be closed or open source, have their places. I have a PC at home that dual boots Windows XP and Linux. At work, I have a Mac, and log into various forms Linux, AIX, and Solaris machines to do work. Mac OS X is pushing me away.

The past two security updates that I have installed (including the one I installed today) have erased all of my network printers. When this happened the first time, I was flabbergasted. How could they not have tested this? I searched the web and found that other people had also experienced the problem and the solution was to install an older version of CUPS. Coincidentally, at the same time I was dealing with this problem, a co-worker walked up and said "Hey, how do you like your mac?" Let's just say that I didn't have anything good to say at that point. He had obviously drunk the kool-aid and assured me that everything was so easy on a Mac that he could have my printers back in no time. Well he started working on it and about 30 minutes later, I said, why don't we just try reinstalling CUPS? We did that and my printers were back. So, now, it's about a month later and this new security update did the same thing to my printers. There's no excuse for that. If Microsoft did it, everybody would be up in arms over it. I've never had a MS security update mess up my computer like that.

Cool things about Mac:
1) How you can use Expose to set the corners of your screen so that when you move your mouse to them, the windows rearrange in different ways.

Bad things about Mac:
1) Everytime you install a security update or even an update to stupid Quick Time, you have to reboot.
2) I would say the 1-button mouse, but I have a Mac mini, so I use a USB Microsoft keyboard and mouse.
3) No taskbar. If it weren't for Expose, I don't know how you could find all your open programs. I tend to be one of those people that has about 1 million apps open at a time.