>I sat watching a directory copy to our office NAS today saying "About 5 seconds remaining" for around 45 minutes. Something is definitely broken there. Before that it said "10 seconds" for ~20 minutes and "1 minute" for ~30 minutes. It was copying... the speed/time calculation just clearly didn't take into account copying lots of small files (<=1KB) is a very different scenario to 1 big file. Let alone it just shouldn't be that slow...
So you are new to this "computer use" thing?
Because shit like that happens _all_ the time, in all OSes, from OS X to Windows to Linux, to NetBSD, to Haiku, to whatever.
It can even have 20 different explanations, besides the OS. "Doing a directory copy to the office NAS". Maybe the network configuration? Maybe the NAS?
For major issues and bugs I can understand the complaints --like the buggy XCode.
But do people (and hackers much more), think it means something to have tiny complains about some one-off annoyance that who knows why and how it happened?
Interestingly, these are the issues that people have been complaining about on Windows for decades and apparently have been the reason for people moving to Macs. But now they are creeping up there, too. Has OS X gotten worse, or was it just the enjoyment of using something new that made people not see these problems on Mac?
All OSs have problems. And if you add third party drivers, external services, peripherals, etc, exponentially more problems.
The reasons I use Mac (and lots of people too perhaps) is not because they don't have problems, but because:
1) It doesn't annoy me with 200 popups, update this, approve that, USB connected, etc.
2) It doesn't require me to run a performance hogging antivirus (I know the arguments: Macs can get a virus just as well as, etc. Until that _actually_ happens as often as it did in Windows circa 2000, instead of mere lame trojans that I have to work to install I won't bother. Do people run antiviruses on Linux?).
3) It doesn't come with horrible, horrible, horrible, OEM software.
4) It doesn't look like it was designed by a 17 year old Star Trek fan geek with no design sense (Metro is better of course).
5) It doesn't have 20 year old widgets that still haunt users today. If you ever run some apps with statically linked (I guess) Windows 98 looking "save file" dialogs and such, you know what I mean.
6) It has a UNIX underneath, and I'm a CS (and Linux user for work).
7) It can run professional, top of the line, multimedia apps (which I uses professionally and as a hobby) whereas Linux can't: Creative Suite, Final Cut Pro, Logic, Cubase, Waves, Komplete, et al.
8) 95% of the stuff "just works" without fiddling. Never happened to me on Windows or on Linux (starting from RedHat Linux 5 --circa 1998-- to Ubuntu 12.04).
So you are new to this "computer use" thing?
Because shit like that happens _all_ the time, in all OSes, from OS X to Windows to Linux, to NetBSD, to Haiku, to whatever.
It can even have 20 different explanations, besides the OS. "Doing a directory copy to the office NAS". Maybe the network configuration? Maybe the NAS?
For major issues and bugs I can understand the complaints --like the buggy XCode.
But do people (and hackers much more), think it means something to have tiny complains about some one-off annoyance that who knows why and how it happened?