Where did that go?

I'm now a few days into my Mac experience and have learned to navigate around the texts as requested in the last post (alt-arrows is a good tip). Now I have found new challenges and things that does not behave as I would expect.

I had expected the same stability as of my old unix computers but a few incidences have made me understand that this is just another desktop os, my incidences are however mostly connected to parallels I think - Do not try to change the display settings on your screen within OS X while running parallels in a coherent mode. This has resulted in my screen starting to show just garbage and required me to make a hard reset since I do not know how to make a normal reboot without being able to read the screen.

I have also managed to get a "hang screen" and it was sure much nicer than the blue screen in windows but still not that much fun to potentially loose data. See the screenshot for inspiration :-).

My main challenge so far has been to know where things appear, it does sometime feels like I play hide and seek with myself while I move windows around to see if I have placed something behind them. Here are some of my points about the window system of OS X:

• I like the idea that an application is not just a single window, and that all windows have the same menu. But this does lead to some confusion about which application a window belongs to.
• In MS Win we are used to switch between windows with alt-tab the same concept exists in OS X but we switch between applications instead, and an application can both have multiple windows or no open window at all which adds to the initial confusion for a switcher as myself.
• Similarly pressing the close buttons on windows does not terminate the application but only disposes the actual window, this resulted in that I had a lot of open applications in the beginning but no open windows.
• Window handling between OS X, MS Win, and X is quite different and I guess that I have to accept to relearn how to interact with them to become efficient in this new system.