January 26, 2006
- View preferences with a simple keyboard command for any application (command-comma).
- Alt-tab (command-tab) navigates between whole applications, not open windows, which is far cleaner and more intuitive. Command-tilde navigates between open windows of a single application.
- Other running programs do not take the focus away from the main program currently in use, the way Windows does.
- Exposé, which is far cleaner and intuitive than the Windows taskbar or X Window multiple desktops.
- Security that’s far more solid than Windows, and much more user friendly than Linux/FreeBSD.
- Superior keyboard design, including close ESC key, volume controls, caps lock button that lights up and eject.
- Intuitive, simple, secure and reliable installer system. The installer uncompresses folders containing application system files from an archive (like zip) file. These folders, once installed, are represented graphically as a single icon. The applications files are quarantined in a single folder and not scattered throughout the filesystem piecemeal as they are in Windows or Linux/FreeBSD. Uninstalling the program in question requires only dragging and dropping it into the trash.
- DarwinPorts, an open source porting system that’s very reliable, rich and intuitive, but not yet as complete as Gentoo’s or FreeBSD’s.
- Absolutely no hardware or driver issues. Mac OS X is written exclusively for Mac hardware.
- The overall look and feel of the OS is so much more aesthetically pleasing than any other windowing environment.
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