[amatecha]

Open is Cmd-o

Expecting Return ("Enter" on Win PC) to open a file is a convention you learned from other OSes. Conversely, imagine my confusion having grown up with Mac OS and being shocked at Windows opening a file I expected to edit the filename of by pressing Enter? :)

Deleting a file? Command... wait for it... Delete

I mean, all of your gripes seem to be about expecting behaviour from other OSes/software and you're not open to learning something new. Different operating systems have different conventions and ways of allowing the user to interact with them.

There are myriad key-commands which can also make your life easier, and they are all pretty easy to remember. I mean, I learned all this stuff when I was literally like 6 years old. As a child I was able to easily remember literally every key command available to the user, in every program I used, including fairly complex DTP software like Quark XPress.

[encom]

>Return ("Enter" on Win PC) to open a file is a convention you learned from other OSes.

Yes, every other OS on the planet, since the beginning of time. This is just Apple being weird for the sake of being weird.

[amatecha]

Hey, I'm not saying the person has to like it, but they're complaining at length about an OS strictly because they are unfamiliar with it.

Also, sorry to disappoint you, but pressing Return has entered name-edit mode for files and folders since literally the very first Macintosh, running System 1.0. I just tried it. I'd love to hear the long list of GUI-based OSes from January 1984 (or earlier) that used Enter to open/execute the selected file/folder, though.

[encom]

I never said GUI-based. And the list of OSes using Enter to execute commands from <1984 is:

1. All of them.

Even the Alto which Apple... ahem... were "inspired" by.

[amatecha]

Yeah, we were talking about a graphical file manager, and selecting a file/folder/executable and pressing Return. Not the same as entering text commands in a CLI. I can see why you'd try to make this argument if you were conflating the two though. /shrug

[saagarjha]

Guess which came first? It was Finder, and with ⌘O.

[encom]

Alto had a graphical file manager way before Apple, because of course it did.

[encom]

Good evening downvoters.

It was called "Neptune", so go ahead and duckduckgo that instead of downvoting facts you don't like.