7th February 2006, 1:43 PM
Some of that is a little unfair. First of all, the current incarnation of Mac OS does have built in support for multibutton mice. The third mouse button doesn't do much, but it doesn't do much of anything in Windows either (unless you assign a function to it yourself).
Further, as to the hard to use thing, I myself am not very familiar with it. However, I will say right now that that is mainly due to just not using it.
But one other thing. lazy, a computer is a computer, and that in mind, if you overload a Mac OS with startup extensions, you WILL feel the slowdown. This at least I know from experience. I had to learn how to unload someone's extensions as I went along.
Further, as to the hard to use thing, I myself am not very familiar with it. However, I will say right now that that is mainly due to just not using it.
But one other thing. lazy, a computer is a computer, and that in mind, if you overload a Mac OS with startup extensions, you WILL feel the slowdown. This at least I know from experience. I had to learn how to unload someone's extensions as I went along.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)