My first week with the Mac mini: First and lasting impressions from a Windows user gone awry
It's been a full week of Apple for me and an interesting one at that here at the Hess house. My family feels my pain. My new Mac mini is cool but I've discovered a few quirks with it that make me want my Windows system back. In all, I've almost duplicated everything from my old Windows computer to my mini, so there are only a few gaps that remain. In the midst of school starting, my own productivity needs, my birthday, and my daughter's birthday, and forcing myself to use the Mac mini exclusively, it's been a trying week.
I've used Windows for a long time. A really long time. Before that, I used DOS. During one of my breakups with Windows, I used Red Hat Linux as my workstation. I've always come back to Windows because, and I know how crazy this sounds to some of you, everything I do is just so much easier on a Windows system. Yes, that's right. I said it. Things are just easier to do in Windows.
Maybe it's just what I'm used to and maybe it's the way I work but, for me, Windows is easier to use, to manipulate, to be productive on, and so on. Even way back in 1990, when I had a friend try to help me write up some documentation and create some graphics using a Mac, it was such a pain to use. Everything is so opposite from my way of thinking.
