On Macbook
Well, mentlegen, I am writing this update from Stinja's new 13" macbook pro.
Oh god I've missed OSX. True, I have a partition on this machine running XP, but switching to XP in order to play games feels like being hit in the stomach with a brick. It's not the fault of the computer; it switches beautifully, but it's just that as soon as I'm in XP I instantly miss all of the features of OSX.
Like Expose. Spotlight. Spaces. The X Window system. Four-finger gestures on the trackpad. Using the damn open apple key instead of ctrl. Ok, that last one is less a feature than a convention, but Mac had it first and it's aggravating because the open apple key is activated with the thumb and the ctrl key with the pinky or ring finger. It's a completely different muscle memory.
XP's about as fun to use as a volleyball covered in poisonous spikes, by comparison.
And I pretty much refuse to pay money for vista. It has no features worth mentioning but for the ones copied (shoddily) from OSX, and however much Microsoft tries to bill it as the most successful OS since they added slicing in Bread 2.3, roughly half of the sold copies of Vista are downgraded to XP at some point.
I haven't worked on either my new comic nor my rpg yet. Keep your pants on, I'll get to it, as soon as I move the relevant files onto this computer. I've been mulling over the comic in my head, and I think it's starting to come together nicely.
Put some pants on,
-Stinja
Oh god I've missed OSX. True, I have a partition on this machine running XP, but switching to XP in order to play games feels like being hit in the stomach with a brick. It's not the fault of the computer; it switches beautifully, but it's just that as soon as I'm in XP I instantly miss all of the features of OSX.
Like Expose. Spotlight. Spaces. The X Window system. Four-finger gestures on the trackpad. Using the damn open apple key instead of ctrl. Ok, that last one is less a feature than a convention, but Mac had it first and it's aggravating because the open apple key is activated with the thumb and the ctrl key with the pinky or ring finger. It's a completely different muscle memory.
XP's about as fun to use as a volleyball covered in poisonous spikes, by comparison.
And I pretty much refuse to pay money for vista. It has no features worth mentioning but for the ones copied (shoddily) from OSX, and however much Microsoft tries to bill it as the most successful OS since they added slicing in Bread 2.3, roughly half of the sold copies of Vista are downgraded to XP at some point.
I haven't worked on either my new comic nor my rpg yet. Keep your pants on, I'll get to it, as soon as I move the relevant files onto this computer. I've been mulling over the comic in my head, and I think it's starting to come together nicely.
Put some pants on,
-Stinja
posted by Stinja at 11:16 AM
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