Discussion Stay Mac or Back to Windows?

[AdamOnFirst]

Apple tends to hide files as well...

open terminal insert the following:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE

killall Finder

Then take a look around. Also program installed files have to be opened through the main icon (ctrl click= open pkg contents) which isn't exactly an easy way to modify existing program files to suit your needs.

Unfortunately, we have not had the same reliability when dealing with macs as you have mrmez. Since moving to the mac intel processors we've been pretty busy around here (which is pretty much on par with what you can read online, google: HD failure, Font issues, Isight problem, permissions error, with mac added to the end). The 10.6 xserves are extremely buggy as well , buggier than any server OS i've had the pleasure of using to date...10.5 was pretty decent .

Again it was just my two cents ... if OSx works for your power user needs, Kudos I say. Their are a ton of things i like about OSx, it just depends on what I'm going to do with it.

I suppose you are right that Macs also hid files, but in my experience, they are not files you ever have much of a reason to touch any way. Put it this way, in 5 years with my Mac Book Pro I can't think of a single time I went and hunted down hidden system files to edit something, and I did it within the first 24 hours on my my PC.

The app contents thing is an interesting take, but I for one really liked it. Since 75% of apps keep all their files and data within themselves, you rarely have to hunt down files if you want them (which I do all the time, game saves, disk images, etc). If they aren't in the contents, they are either in your Docs folder or in Application support. Windows has at least half a dozen different places applications will squirrel away files, and many applications use several of them by themselves. Of course, this isn't anything a 1.5 second google search can't resolve anyway, so it's a minor deal.