Guess I am not really sure where you run into this problem. Isn’t that what we want in a File Manager? Customization options. You can set your default view when you open a new Finder window and even remove the “All My Files” from the sidebar. ”All Documents” is the dumbest thing ever if you have more than 10 files. If you want to move instead of copy or copy instead of move hold down the option key. Also, if you are dragging a file/folder and you see a green plus then it is copying, if not it is moving. Nothing magical, just following the rights. If you have full ownership to a folder on the root volume, which is usually only your home folder, than a file is moved, otherwise it is copied. There are no magical conditions on whether a file is moved or copied. Which in most cases you shouldn’t be pasting to those folders anyway. I have never had a problem copying and pasting files unless I didn’t have rights to a folder. Drag & drop works differently depending on (to the common user) magical conditions. OS X window manager won’t help if they’re not.Ĭan’t simply copy & paste files. Hope you remembered to make sure both the source folder window & the target folder window are fully visible before you start dragging those files. Anyone ever use them? Speak up at the back? Didn’t think so. Provided you can ever figure out how to do it. Pixel-perfect precision is required to add new shortcuts. Or you can option-click, navigate a menu and pop up a dialog to figure out what file you’re looking at. Hope you don’t have one file in two different file formats, otherwise you just have to know the subtle iconographic difference between “Presentation.key” & “Presentation.pptx”. “All Documents” is the dumbest thing ever if you have more than 10 files. Still, you can just arrange the files & folders as you’d prefer them. Who knows?Īlmost all of the “Order by…” options are almost, but not quite, entirely not what anybody actually wants. What do you know?Ĭan’t simply copy & paste files. And what did those platforms have that made them successful? Strong software running on top of the OS along with a worry-free onboarding and maintenance process, usually with professional support for end-users. However, if you look at the examples where Linux has been successful in the market, such as embedded systems like set-top boxes and heavily customized OS variants with their own software ecosystem like Android, it’s precisely Linux’s esoteric strengths that made those platforms’ developers choose it. The kicker: “If Linux distributions had the same level of consumer tech support available that Windows and OS X does, we’d see adoption number exploding.” To be blunt, I find this essay unpersuasive. The Mac is popular because is has “strong software titles” and good support. Linux’s pros: it runs on so many kinds of hardware, installing software is easy, variety of file managers and desktop environments. How can we pass up a title like that? The article takes an interesting approach on practicality.
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