I'm very new to Mac I just got a Macbook about two months ago it's my first ever apple computer. I got it to become familiar with it since I like to be familiar it and other operating systems.
My first impression after using Linux as my primary OS for the last ten plus years is OS X is very Linux-like in behaviour.
But I feel like I am in a glossy, trendy prison with a guard constantly next to me. Everything works well because it was all made by Apple or at least with hardware it was hand-picked by Apple to work with their OS. If Linux or Windows made a computer and the hardware was specifically hand-picked for each OS version I'm sure it also would run as smooth and be as glossy as OS X.
Rebooting after software updates was alien to me (use Ksplice on Linux) but I figured OS X was BSD/Unix based and never expected so many reboots for simple things.
I never use the App store either because I don't see why I need to enter my credit card information to update a free app.
Plus the lack of real separate delete and backspace keys is driving me crazy! (yes I know fn+delete is Win/Linux "delete")
On Apple's full size USB keyboards you have a separate delete and backspace key. Both still called delete, but they do the same task as on other machines.
As for rebooting, that is slowly going away, only for major updates that modify libraries that may currently be in use by applications is it still required, mainly to be sure that those apps start using the updated version rather than keeping the old one around. With Lion's support for going back to a previous state upon logging in that has become almost seamless, my windows are back in the same location after a reboot as they were before the reboot.
My first impression after using Linux as my primary OS for the last ten plus years is OS X is very Linux-like in behaviour.
But I feel like I am in a glossy, trendy prison with a guard constantly next to me. Everything works well because it was all made by Apple or at least with hardware it was hand-picked by Apple to work with their OS. If Linux or Windows made a computer and the hardware was specifically hand-picked for each OS version I'm sure it also would run as smooth and be as glossy as OS X.
Rebooting after software updates was alien to me (use Ksplice on Linux) but I figured OS X was BSD/Unix based and never expected so many reboots for simple things.
I never use the App store either because I don't see why I need to enter my credit card information to update a free app.
Plus the lack of real separate delete and backspace keys is driving me crazy! (yes I know fn+delete is Win/Linux "delete")