I don't think your extremely harsh assessment is warranted at all. There's nothing really tangible in your post besides minor things you have to get used to like pressing Cmd+Down to open a file instead of Return.
Why exactly do you feel every interaction with Finder deletes your data? You can't just state something like that without giving examples. It's _the_ worst critique you can give a file manager.
Also, where do you even find those endless preferences you talk about? There's only a handful checkboxes in the Finder > Preferences window. (Compare this to the clusterfuck that is Windows: http://i.imgur.com/2ZcsX7w.png). The only commandline setting I've used is the hidden files toggle which I try to avoid anyway because of all the dotfiles in my home directory. What are all these "iconoglyphs" you talk about? Can we see a screenshot of your Finder window? Something tells me you have configured it wrong by trying to use some obscure commandline settings.
Why exactly do you feel every interaction with Finder deletes your data? You can't just state something like that without giving examples. It's _the_ worst critique you can give a file manager.
Also, where do you even find those endless preferences you talk about? There's only a handful checkboxes in the Finder > Preferences window. (Compare this to the clusterfuck that is Windows: http://i.imgur.com/2ZcsX7w.png). The only commandline setting I've used is the hidden files toggle which I try to avoid anyway because of all the dotfiles in my home directory. What are all these "iconoglyphs" you talk about? Can we see a screenshot of your Finder window? Something tells me you have configured it wrong by trying to use some obscure commandline settings.