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I'm sitting in Warner 018 at SUNY Cobleskill, the Mac lab. I can honestly say that this is the last place I expected to find myself when I started my college career here. I was all "mac minus minus" and stuff. As it turns out, learning the mac has proven no more difficult than learning linux.

I do have a certain number of greviances, as I'm sure does anyone who grew up on PC and finds themself working on mac.

1. I have to open a window to get a full list of my applications.
2. The meta key configuration is confusing to me. Why when I just press [apple] does the apple menu not drop down?
3. I am completely unfamiliar with the shortcut keystrokes, though I acknowledge this to be my own shortcoming, and not that of the OS.
4. Where the fuck is my right click?!

Other than these, I really have no problems with the mac. I will withhold judgement on the administration and hardware facets of the system, never having dealt with them. The interface is functionally and aesthetically beautiful. I'm actually on the lookout for a dock-like widget for Linux. I'm running FC4 and Gnome 2. If you happen to know of any, let me know. Better yet, if you know of a way to mod the existing system, that would be better.

I would buy a mac. It wouldn't be the next system I'd buy, but if I owned one I would use it.

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