It's very rare for me to lose my temper, but there are just certain things that are the perfect kindling for RAGE.

Here's a simple concept: Backing up files on a CD-RW. Seems simple enough... just drag 'n drop your files onto the CD, hit "burn files to CD", the files get burned to the CD, and you have plenty of room left to burn more files in the future until the CD gets filled.

At least, that's how I'm used to things working on a PC.

On the Mac, I've just wasted 2 hours trying to back up 2 PDF FILES. 2. FREAKING. FILES. And guess what... I failed to even do that.
Apparently, if I just copy/paste a file onto a blank CD-RW, it only allows that file to be burned onto the CD and that's that; no more burning to that disc, coz' it's full now!
So according to the help files I've got to find the Disk Utility program (now where's that thing... System Preferences? Finder..? Applications... no? Crap! *searches for 10 minutes* fine, Utilities.), go through a whole schpiel of making a new disk image and tweaking all the little pull-down menus that go with it. I'm trying to make sure this thing is being made right, having to redo the process 3 times over because of little mistakes and overall confusion, then when I finally think I have it done right and set up, there's a half-hour wait for the "disk image to burn" or whatever.
So I putz around the apartment waiting for my computer to finish up, it finally spits out the disc. I pop it back in, and 2 things pop up: the disc image called "disk image" and the CD-RW called "disk image".
D:
So now I'm confused about how a disc image is supposed to help me burn my stuff to disc. I try a few combinations of copy/paste to either the image or the CD, and nothing seems to work.
Of course, the main frustrating thing is that early on when I read the how-to page for this process, it said that I would have to go through the whole thing again for every single time I want to save to disc.
WTH? You mean I have to re-learn that stupid, overcomplicated process --and FAIL-- each time I want to update my backup disc???

So I've had it. I chucked the CD twice across the room, banged my keyboard on the desk and wanted to strangle this Mac so badly.

And this is why I prefer flash drives.