> Don't have any, so far. OS X almost never crashes, and if an
> individual program freezes or quits, everything else is undisturbed.
> And it's so pretty. If I want to, I can get down to the UNIX level,
> but why would I want to type command lines full of pipes and switches
> and parms and all that crap I'm happy to have left way behind?
Besides the well-known fact that there are no Mac trojans and viruses. If someone or other would streamline the process of getting Unix software to run on the Mac, so us idiots could do it, we'd be in heaven.
Apparently we'll have to wait for a couple of years for a proper Cocoa version of Open Office. In the meantime, I'm limping along with Word, but only under vigorous protest!
Since starting to use OS X, I've delved a bit into Unix, mostly out of curiosity to see what I can do with it. But the trouble is, you can't just delve a bit into it; to do anything of value, you apparently have to spend several years studying it, preferably as a computer science major at Cal Tech or Berkeley or MIT, and I just don't have the spare time for all that. I just want to get some work done and do a bit of Web surfing and e-mail list posting.
Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org __________________________________ A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, 'You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk-dancing.' -- Sir Arnold Bax