John Lindal’s Blog

OS X – Tiger

Today I got my Christmas present: a brand new Powerbook G4 with the new, higher resolution screen and OS X Tiger.

Now, I have to admit that when OS X first came out, I considered it a step backwards in terms of look-and-feel. The big, fat dock at the bottom of the screen wasted far too much space, and the magnification feature just annoyed me. The new look for the Finder was also annoying. I like separate windows for separate folders, especially since Mac OS has always made it easy to cope with — at least for me.

I’m happy to report that I was wrong. It took me 5 minutes to realize that Mac still reigns supreme for UI design. I say that having used Windows 2K, Windows XP, Gnome from RedHat Enterprise 4, and my favorite, fvwm2.

With the dock on the left, magnification turned off, Desktop Manager installed, Finder configured to open windows, and Mighty Mouse configured with middle-click for Exposé and right-click for context menus, I’m ready to install Code Crusader and get to work!