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- meatmcguffin, on 10/12/2007, -48/+231Wow, three morons in a row. What are the odds!?
- Sanooj, on 10/12/2007, -18/+100Probably, but I didn't, so dugg.
- PlaidPhantom, on 10/12/2007, -17/+94"Wow, three morons in a row. What are the odds!?"
Think about where you are. Now ask that question again. - mdnash, on 10/12/2007, -25/+9127. Confusing "delete" with "backspace" (because Apple has two keys named "delete" on the keyboard, one of which does forward delete and the other backward delete. Way to go, usability geniuses).
I count one delete key on my macbook - cyberdork33, on 10/12/2007, -3/+63your macbook does not have a full keyboard.
- Haphazardness, on 10/12/2007, -22/+774. Using Safari's Google search to get to a website.
...and what's wrong with that exactly?... Don't we all use google 'to get to a website.'? - JoshuaMGray, on 10/12/2007, -3/+53standard tower mac keyboards have two delete keys http://www.iskin.com/images/xt_images/apple-keyboard.jpg
- tehbored, on 10/12/2007, -7/+57@Haphazardness
I think he meant entering the URL into the Google search bar. - ziptnf, on 10/12/2007, -15/+63I'm sick of people hating on Macs. I'm an avid Windows/Linux user, but there is a mac where I work, and I enjoy getting on it and fooling around. Macs are very nice. The interface is appealing, it's secure, and runs everything you NEED, but not everything you WANT.
Sure, they may be out of circulation when it comes to particular types of software. But buying a mac is not the major problem, as you seem to think so. Please be more tolerant in the future. The world could use less idiots like you. - sleepwalkers, on 10/12/2007, -12/+56@lukeydukey: Except there's one little thing you forgot about... New Macs come with a two-button mouse.
- mattc908, on 10/12/2007, -14/+58I think the title should be: 30 Mistakes made by people with an IQ of 80 or lower.
- TheJuggernaut, on 10/12/2007, -3/+45If you've made it this far down the list without reading this story, let me save you the time: STAY AWAY.
It's neither useful nor funny. It's unbelievably lame, and I wish to God I had the two minutes of my life it took to read it back. - andrewcod, on 10/12/2007, -2/+41Mirror:
http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:http://danwarne.com/?p=20 - Spinfusor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+35Fn + delete functions as forward delete.
- sandeepg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33Google mirror:
http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:http://danwarne.com/?p=20 - syztem, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25this list seems to have come from someone who only spent a very short time on windows before moving to osx, because some of these things only the ultimate of newbies would actually do.
- trappermark, on 10/12/2007, -5/+26I know Macfans automatically dugg down negativefx simply because he was critical, but at least on the first one he's got a point. Beginning or end of a line is definitely more useful in document editing than beginning or end of the whole document. And yes, I know you can keep it on the line by holding fn.
As a recent convert to Mac, my single biggest annoyance aside from the above is only being able to resize a window from one corner. This makes no sense to me, especially when that corner is near my hidden dock.
BUT...those are very small gripes compared to the great joy I am experiencing from my conversion. Wish now I'd done it years ago. I will never willingly go back to Windows. - godd4242, on 10/12/2007, -18/+3927. Confusing "delete" with "backspace" (because Apple has two keys named "delete" on the keyboard, one of which does forward delete and the other backward delete. Way to go, usability geniuses).
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lulz were had I have to admit. - Burritoking924, on 10/12/2007, -1/+201. Closing an application window, thinking it has quit.
2. Downloading an app and running it from the disk image.
3. Creating endless untitled folders
4. Using Safari’s Google search to get to a website
5. Confusing the concept of wallpaper with screensaver
6. Double-clicking a window thinking it will maximise it, but instead sending it to the dock
7. Not understanding the usefulness of column view and leaving everything in icon view
8. Not using any keyboard shortcuts
9. Thinking that now they’ve got rid of Windows they won’t have problems of _any_ sort on their Mac
10. Renaming desktop icons to random characters because they don’t understand the difference between the enter and the return key on Mac. (Enter puts an icon into rename mode).
11. People trying to find the menus on a window, not realising they’re always at the top of the screen
12. Trying to resize windows from the edge rather than the drag area on the corner
13. Trying to use the CTRL key rather than CMD key for shortcuts.
14. Thinking it’ll be easy to get a stuck CD out.
15. Installing a program every time they want to run it because they think the installer _is_ the program.
16. Where’s “the internet”? (looking for the Windows Internet Explorer “e” icon)
17. Repeatedly hitting the Apple key expecting the Apple menu to pop up (confused with Windows Key and Start Menu concept)
18. Thinking the green “+” button maximises a window to full screen (not realising that Apple’s maximise philosophy is to only make a window as big as it needs to be to comfortably fit the width of content currently being displayed)
19. Looking in vain for an uninstaller app, because they don’t realise that uninstalling an application on Mac is as easy as dragging the program icon into the trash.
20. Minimising windows all the time rather than using “hide”, leaving the document section of the doc littered with forgotten minimised windows (that are quietly occupying system resources).
21. Double-clicking dock icons.
22. Inadvertant click-drags and removing programs from the dock in the process.
23. Saving everything to the desktop or somewhere on the hard drive other than their home folder
24. Trying to load documents or programs multiple times because they don’t recognise the progress indicators (sound of hard drive grinding, CD spinning, Mac spinning beachball, browser status bar)
25. Not understanding that the dock is used to both launch and return to a program …
26. Inability to work with multiple documents on-screen at the same time, because they have only ever learned to use Windows’ maximise mode which always makes everything full-screen
27. Confusing “delete” with “backspace” (because Apple has two keys named “delete” on the keyboard, one of which does forward delete and the other backward delete. Way to go, usability geniuses).
28. Expecting “home” and “end” keys to go the beginning and end of a line, rather than beginning and end of a document.
29. Not realising that when you copy a folder over an existing one, OS X -replaces- the destination folder rather than merging the contents, which is what Windows does.
30. Looking for the “complicated” way of doing everything. For example, trying to go into system preferences and right-clicking on the networking icon in order to find available wireless networks, rather than just clicking on the Airport icon in the menu bar and selecting the relevant wireless network.
http://web.archive.org/web/20060819023704/http://danwarne.com/?p=20 - roodammy44, on 10/12/2007, -12/+31To be fair, some of apple's controls are retarded.
The green button maximise thing sometimes makes the windows *smaller* and is a pretty crappy feature on a small laptop screen. Give me maximise every time.
Plus, I can't see why you can't resize windows using all sides. Combined with the crappy green button it makes it a chore every time to get a finder window to fill the screen. Oh, and it doesn't save the last size you left the window.
I like apple's OS better than windows, but the constant re-sizing of windows pisses me right off. Why can't they at least give us the *option* to make the green button maximise, even if it's a hidden option. - sleepwalkers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19You know Digg lets you reply to specific comments?
- mwosh, on 10/12/2007, -26/+44Why do you people keep making the same damn joke?
Yeah, we get it, buying a mac is a mistake. It wasn't funny to begin with. - crazybrit, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21What 3rd party are you referring to?
- Aliarse, on 10/12/2007, -12/+28#1 - Buying a, oh, nevermind.
- hadimirza, on 03/26/2008, -10/+26wtf? Yeah good luck with that...
- trappermark, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19How about entering a knee-slappingly brilliant yuk that's so uniquely from your ever-so-witty brain that it's already been entered half a jillion times before you? Is that on the list? It's now on my list.
- imnojezus, on 10/12/2007, -6/+21roddammy:
The green button resizes the window to the maximum size of the content within the window. When it makes the window smaller, it's just making it as big as it needs to be for you to see all the content. It most definitely is not broken. - XIsntComingBack, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17I think the title should be 30 Mistakes Made by People Who Over Complicate Computers.
- SwabTheDeck, on 10/12/2007, -10/+25@willynilly
The reason they try to stick with one button by default is because 80% of computer users (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.) are retarded and having a secondary button can just complicate things for them. At my job, I'm constantly having to teach non-technical people how to use computers and very few of them understand what right-clicking is, so they're probably better off not having it available to them to confuse them. The type of people that hang out on digg are not typical computer users; most of us have fairly advanced knowledge. That being said, people like us have no problem taking all of 8 seconds to enable the right click that has existed on all macs (since you're clearly a jackass, I'm sure you don't know that tapping the track pad with two fingers is the same as right-click) for some time now. This is one of the few things I have to actually configure on a new OS X install, whereas I have to take about an hour or so configuring a new XP install to just behave in a way that isn't annoying as ***** (turning off annoying update messages, ridding myself of the fruity default theme, changing the god damn screen resolution, etc.).
As far as search functionality, if you're comparing XP's search to Spotlight, you've really got something wrong with you. In case you've never used it, spotlight finds anything on your computer in under 5 seconds, which includes searching the file CONTENTS not just the file NAME, which is the only thing XP's search does. In Vista this is different, but it's not exactly a secret that all the compelling features of Vista are just a rip-off of OS X.
You've obviously spent little or no time using Macs. I've spent many years with Windows and Linux and have come to prefer Macs to both of them. They're not perfect, but they're much closer to being so than the alternatives. I would suggest heading to the hardware store and buying a crow bar to pry your head out of your ass. - digga, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18you'd only waste them anyway... ;)
- trappermark, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Hey, that's good! So good, in fact, that 1/2 a bajillion commentors already said it. Read before commenting!
- chewy5000, on 10/12/2007, -6/+20I THINK WE'VE BLOODY WELL GOT THE POINT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SHUT UP!!!!!!!!! - ElGuano, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Wow. The comments page on that link are an utter cesspool. I've never seen so much vitriol.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15dell sucks
- OUChevelleSS, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14I've seen similar lists, and the 'confusing wallpaper and screensaver' thing gets me every time, in a bad way.
This guy says he has had a PC before, and recently switched. Uhh....the wallpaper/screensaver thing is 'universal' and is NOT Mac specific. - Piggycow, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Seems like half of the numbers are an excuse to say Mac is better then Windows
- godd4242, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15And here I am thinking the rest of the Linux community was reserved and tolerant.
lulz on me I guess eh?
(Note: Ubuntu Edgy user, interested in trying a mac because I've never even touched one) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1423. Saving everything to the desktop or somewhere on the hard drive other than their home folder
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I've been a Mac user since 1988. I have ALWAYS saved to the desktop. Then I file into various folders from there. I had no idea I was doing it "wrong." - jk_baller23, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Since I use both a mac and windows I now get confused with shortcuts, pressing alt instead of ctrl on the windows machine and ctrl instead of apple on the mac. Also, I try to go to the corners of my monitor on my Windows machine thinking it'll do the same things on my mac (hot corners).
- thebaconmonster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12I didn't like the behaviour of the green button when I first switched, however, after spending much more time on a mac, it actually makes sense. How often do I want my browser window to be 1920 pixels wide? Never. I only ever need to make it wide enough to fit the page (if I even bother).
It makese sense for a lot of programs as well. There's no real case when you really need an application to be full screen, so why make it so? - mercurysquad, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11"ARE YOU ***** KIDDING ME??? home, shift+end is a staple of my daily life. "
Well it's Cmd+arrow keys - ElGuano, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Well if this were Digg.Mac, you'd have *two* delete options!
- GMorgan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12http://209.85.135.104/search?hs=sUq&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fdanwarne.com%2F%3Fp%3D20&btnG=Search
This one seems to actually work. - alansky, on 10/12/2007, -11/+21"Spending $3,000 for a Mac and installing Ubuntu.
Spending $3000 for a Mac makes you a certified moron unless you're a professional who needs high-end performance, in which case your $3000 Mac will kick the sh*t out of a comparably-priced Dull. F - GregR, on 10/12/2007, -9/+18@ kielkilla "A friend just got a brand new macbook and guess what? One button. but on another note if you hold ctrl and click it's like a right click."
Or since that's only the default setting for the mouse, go the the mouse control panel setting and change it to recognize a right-mouse click! - Me1000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9@paintballboi07
I thought that was what system preferences!
and if a 3rd party program can do it, then so can a user. it uses the same permissions as you! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11your the 17238298138915th person to post that. you use a dell dont you?
- Tokkii, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9You're so right. My computer doesn't work if I use a DVD player. And if my VCR isn't flashing 12:00 don't I get a virus or something?
- jsp317, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I love digg. The only thing i hate is that it has got to big. It use to be fun and full of cool info. Now look at it full of cry baby my os is better than yours childish *****. They both do what you need them to do get over it.
- KronK0321, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9in System Preferences --> Keyboard and mouse --> Keyboard Shortcuts tab --> Put the dot in All Controls instead of Text Boxes and Lists Only
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