Common mistakes made by new Mac users

Tue, 31 January 2006

We’ve all seen the common mistakes made by people new to OS X:

1) they close an application’s windows thinking the program has quit.
2) they’ll download Firefox and then run the browser from the disk image and then not be able to throw away the disk image because the program is still running. See number 1.
3) .exe files lie scattered around the desktop from aborted downloads of Flash Player or some screensaver-cursor-spyware doodad.
4) untitled folder. untitled folder 2. untitled folder 3…
5) Using Safari’s Google search field to get to hotmail.com.
6) Desktop Picture or Wallpaper is not a synonym for Screensaver.

I could go on, but you get the idea. What have you seen that are common mistakes made by people using Macs?

Source:  The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

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4 Responses to “Common mistakes made by new Mac users”

  1. Ben Reubenstein said: Wed, 1 February 2006 at 01:55

    7. Refer to .app bundles as .exe files ;)

  2. Ben Reubenstein said: Wed, 1 February 2006 at 01:56

    Ah crap… maybe the reference was to .exe files…

  3. Lee Hord said: Thu, 2 February 2006 at 04:57

    A couple of common things I’ve seen with new Mac users are:

    1. Two many icons on the dock, I quite often see multiple browsers and e-mail clients on the dock.

    2. Software installed from Disk Images is on the root of the Macintosh HD instead of the Applications folder.

  4. Arjan said: Fri, 3 February 2006 at 02:15

    8. Using the CRTL key instead of the Command key;
    9. Buying firewall, spyware and system utilities software

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