[Minor49er]

I found myself in a similar situation. Learning some of the hotkeys in Finder for common tasks really helped me curb that feeling

Command + O to open files/folders in Finder was a bit challenging to remember since Enter/Return just works in Explorer

[kfarr]

Command + down arrow also works to open

Command + up arrow is a good shortcut to go up one level, surprisingly hard via gui

[userbinator]

Command + O to open files/folders in Finder was a bit challenging to remember since Enter/Return just works in Explorer

...and in Finder, Enter is rename, which is a lot more puzzling, so much that many others have commented on the same and some even tried to justify it:

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/6727/why-does-the-...

https://old.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/16hxjrn/why_is_the_d...

[klodolph]

Arrow keys are where it’s at. Command up to go up one level, command down to go down one level (open). Always felt like I had to move my hands more on Windows.

[robertoandred]

“O” as in “Open”. It’s the same shortcut in every app.