Sick and tired as well...
I want to have Windows or Linux on my Macbook pro as primary OS as well. I'm also sick and tired of this machine that cost me about 2200 euro's. For this amount of money you can buy 3 very good computers. Also any additional goodies like keyboards and mouses are very expansive.
So sum up some frustration that comes into my mind within a matter of seconds, I'm sure if I sit down to complain I got much more things that suck on the Mac for sure;
I'm not only sick and tired of the machine because it cut my wrists because of the sharp edges but also because the software you run on it is very unstable.
Switching between programs is an hell, it simply takes to much actions while it's an single click on the Windows task-bar. The most annoying thing is that you cannot find back the window you minimized. Sometimes your window is not displayed in the overview and it will not get back to the front if you click on the icon in the dock. The overview is randomized very often so you always need to read all the names under the screen shots of the programs because the are not located on the same place.
The finder is awful. The file sorting sucks and you are not able to rename file by right clicking on them, you need to click twice and wait 2 seconds in order to do it. You are not able to cut and paste files so you need to drag and drop everything which is time consuming sometimes if you destination is located in a sub folder. So you have to make an copy and delete the other files manually.
Double clicking on an file will open up the program but in lot's of cases not the file itself so you need to click on it again and since the program blocks the file you need to minimize the program again to click on it which gives you the frustration mentioned above again.
Everything is drag&drop which isn't bad, not bad at all, however when you think to drag&drop your file into a program it's simply doesn't work. You need to drag&drop it on that small icon in the dock which doesn't make any sense at all.
Setting an default application for certain file types will not always work. Specially if you want to open up an *.swf file it will open up flash each time rather than the flash player which is very odd.
The look and feel is very outdated. The last time I worked with the mac was 10 years ago and nothing as been changed in meanwhile. The round edges (excepts the machine itself) are very ugly and simply doesn't fit in the design of most programs. Especially the input fields and drop-down menu's on the websites look very bad and mess-up the style of the pages.
On the keyboard there's no home, end, page-up, page-down and especially no delete button which is very annoying because you always need to press an second key to activate these functions. If you are used to use hot keys like CTRL+C,X,V to work quickly then the CMD and FN button are located on the wrong position which gives you RSI in a few days because you need to hold you fingers in an impossible way. Also there's no CTRL key located on the right side of the keyboard.
The eject button for your cd-drive simply doesn't work sometimes.
Of course I know you need to get used to certain things, however I think if it's an good operation system you should get used to it in just a few days and not months like the mac. I never had this trouble switching from windows 3.1 to win 95, 2000NT, XP, Vista, Windows 7, Ubuntu Linux and Redhat Linux. So if you ask me, Mac has the worst OS of them all.
I love the speed of copying files though. Also connecting external hard drives works very good. The start-up and shutdown speeds are great, especially shutting down the computer in just 4 seconds is wonderful if you are very frustrated at the end of the day...
