DMGSwitching
So, I've been switching from a desktop PC to an Apple MacBook Pro as my work computer. As with all transitions, there's now some serious annoyance going on.
First, for use of multiple monitors, Windows seems to just kill OS X. And this is mostly because of Apple's UI conventions.
Putting an application's menu bar at the top of the screen, instead of the top of the window, means that even if an application window is in a secondary monitor, it's menu bar is in the primary monitor. That's bad.
And I'm going nuts with the oddity of OS X's mouse behavior. Just because I'm moving the mouse quickly doesn't mean I want to move it cursor farther. I want constant speed. At the moment, I radically overshoot items that are far from the cursor, and have trouble moving short distances at all. Net result: I want to smash my mouse with a hammer. Why is there no system preference to turn this insanity off?
How the hell do I turn off translucence in Terminal windows? It just screws with readability.
I'm a heavy EMACS user. Who the hell thought it was a good idea to have M-o trigger OS X's file open menu? I rebound M-o to 'open file for a damn reason: I can type directory names faster than I can click them. Get the pop-up out of my way.
That applies to all EMACS mac-ification measures. It's all a bad idea. I've been using EMACS for 12 years. When I start it up, I want EMACS, not some odd variant of EMACS that ignores the settings in my .emacs file and tries to act like a native OS X application.
And Entourage... holy crap does Entourage suck. Never thought I'd miss Outlook, but here I am, doing just that.