An OS 9 odyssey: Why some Mac users won’t abandon 16-year-old software

Re:An OS 9 odyssey: Why some Mac users won’t abandon 16-year... by rsfinn on Monday September 12, 2016 @10:55PM (#12485331)

Since the Macintosh predates Windows and Linux, it's arguably the Macintosh that set the standard and the others that are anti-establishment. :-)

Seriously, Apple is very unlikely to change the keyboard defaults to match Windows, since (among other reasons) it would unnecessarily aggravate long-time Mac users.

Edit: Long-pressing the green zoom button in El Capitan lets you move the window left or right to a half-full-screen view -- not exactly what you probably have in mind, but a reasonable approximation.

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Re:An OS 9 odyssey: Why some Mac users won’t abandon 16-year... by sangnoir on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @02:28AM (#12486007)

> since (among other reasons) it would unnecessarily aggravate long-time Mac users.

As if that has ever stopped them (see: Final Cut "Pro" X)

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Re:An OS 9 odyssey: Why some Mac users won’t abandon 16-year... by pavel_lishin on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @10:00AM (#12488269)

I assume that that doesn't take up a half-hour animation like going full-screen does?

I'm on 10.10 Yosemite, and have no desire to upgrade, since I'm sure that the annoying full-screen functionality is now slightly different and I'll have to spend a few minutes trying to figure out how to un-fuck it again.

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