I have access to quadrillion dollars of high end multimedia and 3d animation software

$1,000,000,000,000,000 worth of software? That's like, one hundred gazillions! Jesus Christ!

We have a MythTV setup too, just got it running a few weeks ago. I love it! :love:

*ahem* black helicopters, off the books budget... don't ask, you may disappear.

I have a PC, but want an iBook or Powerbook. My gf's family computer (a Gateway) crashed last month, and they just bought an iMac, which I'm going over to hook up tonight.

To be honest, we're still working on the MythTV. I'm having trouble with the digital sound output, and Badger is working on the video drivers. What distro did you go with?
- Pie

Erm... I'll ask. I wasn't really involved in the process of setting it up. :) I do know it took him a good week of tinkering with it before everything worked just right.

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My wife just got a brand new IBook from work. The OS is awesome. The only thing that I still have a problem with is Mac's lack of a good file manager program.

he only thing that I still have a problem with is Mac's lack of a good file manager program.

No kidding! I crave for image thumbnailing, although rumor has it that we won't have to wait much longer...

I have a Creative sound card. Does that make me a musician? Maybe a foley artist? Smart alec with a sound card?

Um, ok. Bye.

Wait much longer! Crimony! The Mac OS is older than God himself. It wasn't for a lack of competition, even Windows 3.0 had a file manager, however rudementry that it was. What is Jobs waiting for?

Mac OS Engineers: "Uh, lets just wait a little while longer. I think this file manager thing is overrated."
[Other engineers in room nod heads and mumble softly sounds of unintelligable agreement]

Is a file manager more than a tree view of the file system?

Doesn't even have to be that much.

OS X is only like 4 years old IIRC and is a completely different beast than previous Mac OSes. You've got a lot of options for file managers. Finder, bash(and any other shells that come with OSX), and any of the open source file managers that you can compile for BSD/Mach.

Am I missing something?

Well, yes and no. Windows actually has two type of file managers. The tree style that allows you to take an overview look at the file structure, and it also allows you to browse via windows. True, Mac also does the latter, however the nice thing that Windows allows you to do is open folders up in the same window instead of each of it own windows. By the time I'm done drilling into all the folders I need, I have a gazillion windows open.

Is a file manager more than a tree view of the file system?

I second that question for Hobbs. My massive frustration with Windows is that I cannot manage files as easily as I can with OSX at the moment unless I get into some weird script writing of my own.

Mmm. Bash goodness.