I got my first computer which was Windows 98 when I was about 7 yrs old, and I rlly got used to it, everyone in my class likes Windows, only one (and hes like one of my best friends) likes Mac, but anyway, in my few times as I got a chance to use Mac in my short lifetime (Im guna be 14 very soon), I had similar experience as user Lukepker and I was confused as hell on it!! I was like Wtf no right click is this mouse broken or wot, and it was really weird cause I couldnt open any text editor so I thought it doesent have it (does it?)
Steve Jobs does not believe in the right click so i you might say that like Bill Gates he also believes that most users dont need this or that (you would need a 3rd party mouse (i dont remember if the mighty mouse has it) such as the as the logitech mx revolution (which im getting..
). About the txt editor *all* mainstream consumer OSes (linux, windows and mac... ect) have txt editors and you can add one (with more capabilities (such as programming) like Notepad++ and others...
and I couldnt find anything that has some feature to look what files and folders are installed on it (like an explorer window), and when I saw that Mac that is monitor-computer (i guess u kno wot im talking about),
well technically the finder is a hybrid shell offering the actual GUI, but yeah its pretty weird if you are used to windows....
I was like wtf where does this thing turns on and I was walking around it like a neandertal that found something weird lol (no windows users arent neadertals and mac isnt superior), but I think the reason why Windows controls big part of the market is ease of using it, and it can be more modified as Apple doesent want that on their computers, and cause it can be more modified there are more games for it, and as there are more games for it, more gamers and little kids and persons who also want to do gaming on it buys that, so its kinda likea chain reaction caused by Apple's not wanting its computers being able to get an upgrade, its their own fault, think about it, ain't i right?
the main reason is because of its IBM deal and where it was able to broker deals to OEM's (where as unlike Apple does its own thing with hardware and software) which made it available to pretty much everyone using "off the self" parts, which made it cheap and put the a Windows PC available to pretty much the middle economic class and eventually the lower economic class so that helped alot...
making this pretty much a window's world (where alot of the websites are optimized to run in IE (although this is changing with a bigger share of other browsers) most ISV's still are by windows although that is changing too (java and other cross plataform languages are also changing) but more slowly.)
and apple does keep a few things private (such as patching changes which security-wise can be a double edge sword...)
but for modifying mac OSX you can have many different options to choose from...
if you just search for modding OSX you can find forums dedicating to doing just that, "hacking" the mac
for games there is crossover games which does let you play most games with a few caveats (such as PB will fail, ect) but overall they have pretty good support for games
(including steam)
as for i started on a mac (old power pc mac, and eventually OSX) and pc (first used ME and went thorough using pretty much all the others (as my school has all kinds of pc's [a teacher had and still has a Win95 machine [with SP1 as that includes IE) i should i went back and forth so its not very difficult if you had that option it would be easier to transition (which is why in some mac stores there are "classes" that teach people on how to use a mac as some do not have prior experience at using a pc or have been using Xp all their digital lives) using three major mainstream OSes (Linux, Mac (which is really a hybrid of NeXtStep and BSD which is unix), and Windows makes you realize that each has its use and this makes no OS perfect since there is no such thing (even a completely secure OS is also impossible as there is still the human factor...
, so even a perfection is far away that its possible to say one OS is completly better than the other)
lukepacker you really should try Final Cut Pro which is beautiful and very powerful (i usually use Adobe Premiere [both the 6.5 [as this is what i am proficient] and CS4 versions [mainly for experimenting and eventually migrating too]) as for audio i really have not looked into it but since i use Pro Tools LE this is cross platform and and to me is more than enough (as i already have a license of Cool Edit Pro and now Audition (on the PC) and since there is more cost to buy the Mac i simply said forget it and am using it there on the PC and which is why i have not looked on the Mac...
and there is photoshop on the Mac too so that is cross-platform (although you have to give adobe more to use it) and to me its just easier to use gimp (which is too cross platform) on all linux, pc and Mac machines...
so the main point is that you have options and you can use that information to see which OS is better for you...
i use all three because they all have something i want and they all have something i want to have in the other (example would be FCP from the mac plataform on linux (although i am quite fond of Cinelerra) or PC...)
and am looking for something new to learn from every OS so that in time i can say im profficent on these plataforms...
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