[ubuntu-uk] Mac Frustration (was Remote support was Sad but true? etc.)

[David King]

I always thought that Macs would be easy to use, especially the new OS 
X. So when I had the opportunity to try it out in an Apple shop, I was 
disappointed at how hard it was to do anything. I tried several things, 
and on different occasions, but it was not as intuitive as Apple's 
advertising makes out.

I concluded that Ubuntu was considerably easier to use and far more 
intuitive, as well as being cheaper!

David King



Simon Wears wrote:
> I'm very uncomfortable using Apple computers. My friend bought one 
> about 2 years ago, I still struggle to use it. It seems to try to be 
> different so much, it becomes a little unusable (in my opinion). Case 
> example is (again, 2 years ago) I started college. My girlfriend is an 
> artist, and had to do some work in Photoshop. She took me up to the 
> art computers to help her get used to it, and I was utterly confused 
> about how to even OPEN Photoshop! Then, getting the pictures from her 
> camera was a pain, so we decided to close the program. I couldn't even 
> work out how to do that...
>
> When people ask me about getting a Mac, I often tell them to instead 
> bring their laptop in sometime, and I could give them Ubuntu, meaning 
> they get increased performance, better security, an OS that would do 
> everything they needed, and wouldnt have to spend £1000 on a Mac. 
> Ubuntu is (obviously) not Windows, but people who come use my computer 
> get how to do everything instantly from never having even heard of 
> Linux before. The most anyone has every been lost is by acidentally 
> switching to another desktop and thinking everything closed.
>
> I think Ubuntu is so much nicer to switch to, it takes very few brain 
> cells.
>
> 2009/1/16 Sean Miller <sean at seanmiller.net <mailto:sean at seanmiller.net>>
>
>     On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Simon Wears
>     <munkyjunky at googlemail.com <mailto:munkyjunky at googlemail.com>> wrote:
>     > Usually I am wary of tempting people to switch, but since it's
>     my mum I know
>     > Ubuntu will do exactly what she needs without any hiccups (well,
>     non I can
>     > think of) since all she does is type up work things, and check
>     her emails /
>     > look for holidays online. And I have to do all the technical
>     work at home
>     > anyway, her switching would just mean I can actually say 'just
>     type this and
>     > hit enter' rather than try remember how to do everything on Windows.
>
>     True!!
>
>     Anybody else find the rabid desire to be different from Apple to be
>     distinctly disconcerting??
>
>     Having grown up in a Unix/VT220 environment to find that there is no
>     ctrl key and everything is done differently is, to say the least,
>     rather "alien".  I mean, ctrl-c to cancel... been there since time and
>     memorium... how come Steve Jobs gets to redefine it?
>
>     Means that when folks ask me about switching to Macs, which people
>     seem to increasingly do, I am rather jaded.  I accept their positives
>     but I also am befuddled as to why they seem to have created for their
>     converts such a steep learning curve, forcing them to throw out
>     everything they are used to and buy into a completely different
>     regime.
>
>     Sean
>
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