Originally Posted by DomnizkyDesign
Dear god, man. What the hell.
You know, if you're going to attempt to come to a computer manufacturers aid, at the very least, know how to type. Fingerback, you put Macintosh back a few spots with that post.
Anyway, I'll be perfectly honest. i use a Macintosh. It's not a particularly good machine, just an old iBook G3. Still runs Panther. But anyway, I'll get straight to the point, there are some things Macintosh machines run well, and other things that they cannot run to save their lives, I mean--
Just a second... Adobe? Why would you bring up Adobe? PS has been multiplatform for quite a while.
Okay, just had to address that.
How Mac's download and install applications has to be one of the most redundant and horrendously inefficient processes it has ever been my displeasure to encounter.
START:
Download a .sit (Stuffit) file from a webpage.
Decompress said .sit, where you get a .dmg (DiskImage)
Mount said .dmg, and go into Finder.
Find the Mounted disk as a Removable-Media-Type and open it.
Drag the .app contained within into your Applications folder.
Open your Applications folder, find the .app and run it.
If that wasn't bad enough, now you've got about three extra instances of that program that you need to go and clean up after the fact. First eject the Mounted Disk, then delete the .dmg, and .sit. THEN you can use your program.
Macintosh does do a few things correctly though. Like how an application is really an executable folder. So when you delete that application, it's DELETED. You don't have orphaned files and garbage like that laying around. The only other thing you'd need to do is delete your Preference file, if you want it completely gone. Which is simple enough. Go into Library>Preferences, find the application name (with a .plist attached) and delete it. DONE.
In terms of how there's a yearly OS, that just shows that Macintosh is a subscription, with a 129 USD yearly charge.
I have no idea what I'm doing here... Waiting for PlaneShift to finish downloading...
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