Quote - But on a Mac I am used to software packages running independently.

I'm also on a Mac. I get my full share of PC masochism at work and have no wish to carry on with it at home.

But guess what. On a Mac, just like on a PC, nothing.... nothing... runs "independently". To do that, an application would have to be completely scratch built in native machine code. Just like it would have been in the dark ages of computing.

"If I were a shadow, I know I wouldn't like to be half of what I should be."
Mr Otsuka, the old black tomcat in Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)