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7.25.4

Macs are HARD

Your new Mac laptop doesn't have lynx, but you hear Macs are easy to use, so it should be a piece of cake right? Google 'lynx macintosh' and get a download page from Apple. So far so good. Click to download the package, Stuff-It expander runs, and then - silence. You have to "know" that the .pkg file is on your desktop and what it is. Then double-click that, it installs, declares success, then - nothing. Open up a command line and type lynx: command not found. Look in Applications folders: file not found. Open up the finder and search for files containing the word lynx: just turns up the aforementioned .pkg installation file. For all intents and purposes, your new app was installed in /dev/null. Repeat the above steps till you run out of patience.

Solution is to google something plaintive like "Installed lynx on macintosh but command not found" to find that the binary is in /usr/local/bin/, a directory which apparently is invisible to the "Find file" command.

Score so far: Google 1, Apple 0. Macs are f'ing HARD to use.

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