Originally published at bbhart.com on June 24, 2008.
As you may recall reading, I bought myself an iMac awhile ago. My intention was to use it as my full-time work PC, no matter how painful it would be initially, so that I could learn the ins and outs of OSX.
It’s been death by a thousand cuts.
* Mouse acceleration. It’s just f’d. Mouse feel sluggish or sticky. It takes more effort and concentration to position the pointer than I’d like. Google ‘osx mouse’ to see what I mean. This is the dealbreaker for me at this point. Argh.
* Home/End keys. They don’t go to the beginning or end of a line.
* No decent Exchange client. Thus, I need to run Outlook 2007 in a VM instead. Works pretty well, until I need to deal with attachments. Then it sucks.
* Switching between applications. Switching between windows in the same application. Between Ctrl/Tab, Option/Tab, and Command/Tab, I can’t keep them straight. I’d swear there aren’t any standards between applications.
* Showing the Applications folder is sloooow.
* Many other things.
I had such high hopes for OSX, but at this point it’s impacting my work, so if you need me, I’ll be booted into Windows.