Quote Originally Posted by crosbyharbison


I've never had more than one account, spotlight works fine for me, I have plenty of disk space I don't see the point in wasting my time reinstalling to save 5 gigs, terminal is not 'your friend' especially if you just switched to mac; plenty of things to mess up, i personally hate hot corners and instead trust the people I live with, I don't think adium is better than ichat, I don't use time machine I just clone my external backups, I think apple mail is fine, I avoid suffit and instead usehttp://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html, for browsing I use chrome, and finally unless your stealing software littlesnitch is useless.


Dude, breathe, and use a few periods.


From the perspective of helping a new user get started, TimeMachine is the way to go. It does backups, and that's the important part: getting the backups done. I use the backup functionality to take snapshots while I work, then archive my jobs to another drive. I can delete the job folder, and either retrieve it from backup or download it from archive.


Hot corners are useful, regardless of who you do or don't trust. They're not just for locking your screen - they can be useful for delaying the screen saver while staring at something, etc.