Yet another change in my life. 20+ years of being a P.C. guru and I buy an Apple Macintosh computer. Abandoning my x86 fellowship for a proprietary machine. My life has completely been turned upside down now. The mouse doesn't even have two buttons!!! How am I supposed to right click??
Gone are the days of taking apart a computer and upgrading each piece. No more motherboard and processor upgrades. I have gone into Apple world of incompatibility. Sure it can still access the the internet. Whats this? It wants to join a network. No... I want to connect to the network. Apple users even have their own language.
No more Windows. Shut out from the giant universe of freeware and open source software. Stuck using the second hand software that gets created after a working P.C. version is made. Why??? "Why did I do this?", you must be asking. Well... Marriage is about compromise. And life is about change.
So, without further ado, into the Safari of Macintosh I venture.
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You do know that you can plug any USB mouse (with two buttons and a scroll wheel!) into your Mac, and it will work just fine. :)
Also take a look at Apple's "Magic Mouse", and the mouse+pen tablets from Wacom.
Wow. I did not know that. Siri figured out a way to right click or the equivalent of right clicking with the magic mouse. I still have a lot to learn about Macs.
Mac OS X is based on Unix Free BSD (which is Open Source) and because Linux is just a version of Unix virtually anything that runs on Linux can be installed on a Mac. So you are definitely not shut out of open source software, in fact, you are able to run a lot of stuff on the Mac that you couldn't have run on Windows. You are definitely not limited to proprietary Apple software.
Here is a link of some open source stuff specifically ported to Mac OS X http://www.opensourcemac.org/
And here is some Unix open source stuff that runs on Mac from Apple's website:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/
Good luck, and if you need help finding anything specific I'll be glad to help point the way :)
I'm learning about Mac. So, all suggestions will be highly appreciated and very welcoming!!
Marriage may be a compromise and life may be about change, but what does that have to do with the price of tea in China? Who says that once married, you have to change everything, right down to the computer you use?
I'm "bilingual" with computers.... I use both Macs and PCs (graphic designer and photographer here...). Why not have both machines? If you could afford a new Mac, you could have kept the older PC as well.
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