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Things I hate about OSX
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  • The priority for the path is backwards, causing hours of pain when installing VIM http://superuser.com/questions/7150/mac-os-x-conventional-places-where-binary-files-should-live/7163#7163

  • Brew isn't default. It requires XCode to install many things

  • The terminal is terrible. I've got to bring in a customer terminal to be any good (iTerm2)

  • Spotlight will not, just will not in any way, launch two instances of the same app. So I can't open two terminals without foolery

  • Because there are no installers (which is actually kinda nice) Apps I download need to be moved from /Downloads into someplace good lest I risk clobbering them the next time I clean

  • The OS has claimed many of the good key commands. Does command + H take me to my history in Chrome? No. It hides the screen.

  • Why does there need to be 3 meta keys? Command, control, and alt/option? Why do they have to be in a different order?

  • Two button mouse disabled by default. Why!!!! It may have made sense 20 years ago, but we know how to do this now!

  • The home and end keys do different things than every other OS. Can't we just go to the begining and end of a line? Please?

  • How the heck do you move files around the finder? You can't cut and paste a file, and dragging the file to hover over a folder DOES NOT OPEN IT!!!!

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