Too big of a switch!

[nixgeek]

Ironically, I found this thread where you first posted talking about how you did not like the mouse. Many people here on the forum (including I) provided you with as much information as possible on the subject so that you could make your transition a smoother one. However, you never posted back with any results on the issue so you kind of made the decision to go it alone. Had you asked any other questions about anything else, you would have gotten the same thorough help you got in that thread to help you along until you were ready to go solo. So really, you have to admit that the Mac community (at least here) is willing to go that extra step to get you through your transition from Windows to Macintosh. So understand that it's kind of a slap in the face to post and tell everyone not to switch because of the decisions you made to really go it alone when you received a lot of help that I've not seen in many Windows forums when I've gone searching for answers for that platform. It does nothing to help anyone at all.

[Satcomer]

Originally Posted by macremorse

I've never really known exactly what a troll is but I every time I express my views someone calls me that. A new user can learn Mac just as easy as he can learn Windows. He'll be at a disadvantage in the work place because most corporations use Windows. But he'll have no trouble learning Mac. Switching to Mac after years of Windows has no advantage that I know of. It's like changing from right handed writing to left handed writing just to prove you can do it. If that's trolling, I'm trolling.

With a screen name such as yours and you wonder why people suspect you are trolling?

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Originally Posted by macremorse

I've never really known exactly what a troll is but I every time I express my views someone calls me that. A new user can learn Mac just as easy as he can learn Windows. He'll be at a disadvantage in the work place because most corporations use Windows. But he'll have no trouble learning Mac. Switching to Mac after years of Windows has no advantage that I know of. It's like changing from right handed writing to left handed writing just to prove you can do it. If that's trolling, I'm trolling.

My first experience with computers was with an IBM PC (the original IBM PC). The second experience I ever had was with a Mac (the original Mac). I learned DOS and Windows growing up, all the while using Macintosh computers as well.

If you can learn to use Windows so proficiently, then what's wrong with learning to use the Mac as proficiently as well? Do you simply learn one operating system and then quit? I am proficient in both operating systems (as well as others), and do not have the trouble you speak of, even though I've "swtiched" several times in my life.

If Mac OS X operated exactly the same as Windows, and used all the same keyboard shortcuts, and had everything in the same place, then wouldn't it just be Windows?

My point is that choice of operating system doesn't have to be like choice in politics, or choice when you come to a fork in the road: you don't have to choose Republican or Democrat; you don't have to choose left or right. You can choose both. If you're so well-revered in the workplace for knowing Windows inside and out, then think of how much more valuable you'd be for knowing even more computer operating systems.

If you learned Windows, then you can learn Mac, but going into that transition expecting Mac OS X to operate exactly like Windows is asinine and downright stupid. It's a different operating system, and it operates in different ways, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out. If the screenshot keystroke is so difficult for you, then I suggest getting some mental and cognitive testing done to make sure your head's in order. Seriously -- just because it's different doesn't mean it's hard.

Thousands of people have successfully learned to use the Mac operating system after a lifelong romance with Windows, and the vast majority of them were able to do it without problem... so what's your excuse? Laziness? Stupidity? Mental deficiencies? Some physical problem that we don't know about? Stubbornness?

We'd be a lot more apt to accept your problems with the Mac operating system if you had said something like, "I have tried and tried (because I'm not lazy and/or stubborn) to get used to things on the Mac, but I am just too used to using Windows and I'm having the following problems..." but instead you choose to come in and nit-pick about stupid, little problems like keystroke combos and the lack of copy and paste on the iPhone (which, by the way, if Macs suck so much, why did you go out and buy an iPhone, too?! Or are you just throwing out perceived "problems" with the iPhone to try and solidify your "Macs suck" argument)?

And yes, coming into a discussion and switching from Windows to Mac and voicing an opinion like "Don't switch! You'll regret it! I did, and now I think that Macs are stupid!" is the very definition of trolling. If all you have is an opinion and cannot muster up enough brain cells to make a constructive comment or criticism, then keep your opinions to yourself. If you cannot voice your opinions in a fashion that is constructive and forward-moving with respect to the discussion at hand, then you are, by definition, "trolling." You're simply trying to stir people's emotions up to try and elicit some reaction from them; you're not trying to be helpful and/or seek help with problems, which is what this place is all about.