5/09/2004 12:32:00 AM|||Joe|||So I've been a Mac guy for a little over a year now. I used to be a hard-core Linux guy (Debian was my dist of choice). Still am, in a sense. I have shell accounts on a couple Linux boxes (the machine this website is hosted on, for example), but I don't run it at home at the moment.

Let me just say that Mac OS X rocks. It's just about everything that Linux ought to (and hopefully will) be.

Here's the thing - I've been stressed out about a lot of things lately. One way for me to cope is to concentrate and worry about totally inconsequential things. Like my geek rep.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not worried about being a Mac guy. That doesn't necessarily work against your reputation as a geek (Not since OS X, anyway). But here's the thing - apparently, it's totally lame to have magnification turned on for the dock.

I'm sure I've totally lost you Windows folks now. And those of you who know what I'm talking about are probably questioning my sanity. I mean, why should I care? See two paragraphs up.

Anyway, I like the magnification. At first, I had it configured ridiculously. Small-ish dock, absurdly HUGE magnification. I liked it. I came from the eye-candy school of hacking. That is, as long as it doesn't get in the way of productivity, eye-candy rules.

After about a month, I set the magnification to a more reasonable level. Like 10% magnification.

But apparently magnification is lame. So right now I've got it turned off. And I don't like it.

I'm gonna turn it back on. If anyone can give me a good reason why magnification impacts productivity in any way, please do. None of this stuff really matters to me, but by all means, have at it.|||108408927294506491|||Mac Interface