I've known for years that Windows users and Unix users think differently. Just take a hardcore Windows user, sit them down in front of a telnet session on a Unix box, teach them the man command, and watch them try to figure out how to get anything done. They can't. Because Unix documentation is written by Unix geeks who think in a completely different way.

But, I assumed (knowing few Mac users till now) that since Mac users and Windows users at least operate within the same paradigm (a GUI interface, files and folders and all that good stuff) that they'd think mostly the same.

Not so, as I found out while evaluating content-management software. It was suggested I give Frontier a try. Invented on Mac and ported to PC later in life, this system is wild. Organizes things in a way I'd never even consider doing (scripts and tables, boolean and date types are all objects of a database?).

Sigh. I should have known. It took me a year to learn enough of the Photoshop interface to get anything worthwhile accomplished. Macheads just think different.

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