How lovely, you have a shiny new Mac and I’m sure you’re finding all kinds of wonderful new surprises and things that don’t work the way you expected. So you shoot your mouth off at work/on a blog/on twitter/something else about how such-and-such is broken or doesn’t work or whatever.
Let me let you in on a little secret here. And I can tell you this from long experience, because I’ve been using Macs now for more than half my life. There are plenty of us Mac folk out there who have been using a Mac for ages. So if one of us offers some help, then we do know what we are talking about and it probably is because you’re doing it wrong.
We are trying to be helpful. Therefore:
- Don’t take it out on people who are trying to be helpful. Yes, it’s frustrating.
- Would it kill you to try something one of us suggests? I don’t care how long you’ve been using Windows/Linux/your Amstrad, you are still a noob, and we are not.
- Say thankyou, lest you be branded as ungrateful little turds unworthy of further help.
