quote:
“The Apple Way is to make all of your decisions for you so that you’re not burdened by choice.”
Uh.. nope. All that has to be done if the DVD setting isn’t what you want is to go into System Preferences and CHOOSE how you want the computer to recognize audio CDs, DVDs, and BLANK media.
Sheesh.
Hoss.
In fact, the first time you insert a blank DVD in Mac OS X, it asks you what you want to do. You can set it to open iDVD as the default, tell it to just open the disk in the Finder, or you can leave it so it will ask you every time.
Or, if you don’t like that way, you can start by right-clicking/control-clicking in the Finder and choose “Create Burn Folder.” Then put the files you want on the DVD in the folder and click the “Burn” button. It will then ask you to put in a blank DVD and burn the disk.
^^^^^^^^^^^All that has to be done if the DVD setting isn’t what you want is to go into System Preferences and CHOOSE how you want the computer to recognize audio CDs, DVDs, and BLANK media.^^^^^^^^^^
You completely missed the writer’s point.
Sure, you can change the setting, and it’s not terribly difficult at all, but the point is that the setting is there in the first place.
This type of setting can be made in Linux as well, but it’s not assumed outright. It’s not crammed down your throat.