iMind Software

I try to write down my experiences of Os X politely.

As we cannot develop softwares for iPhone on any platforms other than Mac, I have to use a Mac Mini.

What I like:

It's nice. The little tray down there, on which there's a little spot lamp lighting the running applications' icons, is really cute.

I also grew to like that I can quickly change between the desktops by clicking on the icon of the running application.

What I don't like:

Under Linux, I always set the mouse in such a way that the window, above which the mouse is currently staying, becomes active. I'm really used to it and like it, for me it helps many times that e.g. I see the full window of the browser, but I modify the source code in the window above it, which is partly covered by it. There's no such a setting under Os X. Furthermore, I noticed that sometimes one click is not enough either. Sometimes I have to click two times to be able to write where I want. The first click switches to the application, and the second one puts the cursor to the place where I want to write.

There's another function which belongs to handling windows, and I use it many times: I can move a window by grabbing it anywhere, by pressing Alt and pressing the left button of the mouse, or I can resize the window with the help of the middle button of the mouse. This is a great help, especially on a large monitor; it's good that there's no need to aim precisely but you can rearrange the windows with the help of the keyboard. I miss it really much.

I didn't manage to get used to the speeding of the mouse, and I couldn't switch it off either. As for me, I like to cover a big screen by relatively small moves. But under Mac, sometimes my mouse rushes out of the monitor, because the speed of it is increased due to the quicker moves.

I couldn't get used to the keyboard either. Apple + C / apple + V is really uncomfortable, somehow my fingers are being twisted by it. But switching the apple and control keys didn't work either, because this way I kept pressing the bad ctrl + c combination in the terminal.

It's also very annoying that when I use the computer with vnc and there's no monitor plugged in, it does not offer the certain resolution which would equal my notebook's resolution, so I have to be careful not to pull the mouse down too much, because then it would mess the whole thing up. So, I had to put the tray to the left side, which is not as beautiful as when it's down.

And of course there're a lot of other things which I haven't learned or haven't set, but apparently, those are not so important, I can still work in this way.

All in all, personally, I don't like it so much, but of course, that's a matter of taste...