Actually, I don't think I ever had a problem with dragging the diskette icon to the trash to eject it - that's just what you did in Mac OS, and it was easy, and everyone knew how to do it. What I objected to was the inability to manually eject the diskette by means of a button IN THE HARDWARE. I found the fact that I needed to go through software to perform the physical act of removing the diskette from the drive esthetically offensive. That's all there was to it. It sounds like there was a perfectly good reason for this system, but I found it loathsome.

Almost as loathsome as the fact that Win95 on my work machine crashes every single fscking day and I'm too cowardly to reinstall it.


semprini: I didn't say that ejecting the floppy was "hard", I said it was ugly. Your Sparc system is ugly too, if it does it the same way. But in both cases there's a good reason for it being that way.