[breckinloggins]

I love my Mac (as I said in my reply to OP), but I agree that Mac OS takes some getting used to. Luckily I had some Linux experience before switching so I felt right at home at the terminal. But some things still feel odd to me, even after several years.

- The unified menu bar makes sense and saves space, but it's still somewhat disconcerting to someone who is used to their menus having some spatial context with what they are controlling.

- I've always hated the "three gumballs". I much prefer Windows' minimize, maximize, and quit windows controls. Again, the "maximum useful size" feature makes sense, but it's almost never what I want. I really miss Aero snap. There are some programs that will help you out for this stuff. I'm pretty partial to Moom myself. UPDATE: Moom JUST got updated with a "snap to corners" feature. I like it!

- The Finder is still pretty brain-dead. Windows explorer is much better for a power-user.

- And then there's XCode. Oh how I miss Visual Studio. Yes, XCode is getting nicer by the year, but I also do Windows development on my Parallels VM so I'm constantly reminded of how much nicer it is to code C# in Visual Studio than Objective-C in XCode (and I don't even mind Objective-C as a language).

[jshen]

power-users don't use the finder. They use something like quicksilver or alfred.

I'm thinking regular users don't use the finder either. My wife uses spotlight to find her stuff and apps.

[emehrkay]

I consider myself a power user and I find nothing wrong with the finder. The fact that I can drag/drop just about any and everything is a huge plus.

[mwyvern]

It always shocks me tha Finder doesn't have cmd-X cut... cutting is by far the most frequent operation I do in other non-dual-pane file managers. But what do you like better about windows explorer? Finder's "view as columns" makes it feel a little bit more powerful to me.

[falling]

it doesn't have Cut, but it now (as of Lion, I think), Move Here as an alternative to Paste, use it with Cmd-Opt-V.

[mwyvern]

Thank you!

[_b8r0]

I've been using Forklift for a while now instead of Finder. Much less braindead, reminds me of Directory Opus on the Amiga. Probably need to spend more time customising it so it's as good as Midnight Commander but it's getting there.

[pyre]

  > The Finder is still pretty brain-dead. Windows explorer
  > is much better for a power-user

I thought that power-users used PathFinder? (Though I don't know if that's even still in active development. Last time I seriously used OSX was 10.3 ~ 10.4).