win some, lose some

[kaigou]

Well, wiped the drive & upgraded, and now I have to (a) figure out wtf Mac has changed for all its settings, (b) wtf is up with making me use my admin pw for EVERYTHING, and the most important, (c) MAKING IT DO WHAT I WANT. Sadly, experience has taught me it's the last that'll take the longest (if it's ever achieved). On the plus side, very speedy now! Though I wonder how much of that is because my address book got messed up and/or didn't save to the backup drive, and now... well, that was a lot of addresses. Guess I just need to spend a few days convincing myself that I didn't want to write any of you, anyway. Sheesh. It's always something...

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[aldanise]

Heh. That sounds remarkably like my upgrade from Ubuntu Maverick, complete with the WTF did you do to the settings and the important data not backing up properly. And, hey, it's nice to know that Ubuntu isn't the only OS idiotically merging its mobile and laptop versions.

(Which is to say, you have my deepest sympathies.)

[kaigou]

Heh, thanks... and Snow Leopard isn't even half the issue that Lion is, when it comes to merging the iOS/OS versions. Though in Lion's defense, several of my Lion-using friends said that once they got over the hump of the touch-pad interface and the backwards movement, it became much more intuitive. It's just that our previous interfaces were counter-intuitive, when you think about 'em.

That said, Lion doesn't have Spaces (the mac thing where you have four screens, and can move between them) -- and my brain just works better on Spaces. The top left is for Firefox, and all web-application stuff (jEdit, FTPing, text editor), the top right is for Safari and LJ/DW journaling, the bottom left is for visual design (Photoshop, Illustrator) and the bottom right is for media (iTunes, VLC, SimpleComic). It's like, it focuses me to know that in this Space, I'm doing X, but I can move to a different Space and not have the distraction of the windows in the background... but it doesn't "feel" like they're gone, unlike the Lion interface where it just hides them, and then lines them up all together. I don't want them lining up. I want them staying where I put them.

On the other hand, this would all be solved if I just had a second massive screen the same size as what I've currently got. Oooooooh. Oh, hold on, I think I'm drooling. Sorry.