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I switched in 2005. It took me at least a year before I really felt comfortable and maybe another year before Windows felt harder to use. Perhaps you already know this, but I found it really hard to use Finder until I stumbled upon the hotkeys, which seem nonsensical when coming from Windows: Cmd-Down/Cmd-O - open
Cmd-Up - go up
Cmd-C - place item on clipboard
Cmd-V - copy item on clipboard
Cmd-Opt-V - move item on clipboard
Return/Enter - rename
In other words, to cut in OS X, you must do a Cmd-C followed by Cmd-Opt-V (as opposed to Ctrl-X, Ctrl-V), the reasoning being that you can choose to copy or move at the destination. I must have used the Mac for 5 or 6 years before I found that out.I also use an app called Moom to mimic some basic tiling window functions. I have hotkeys bound to move a window to a quarter, third, half, or full screen. This is nice for setting up MacVim and iTerm side-by-side, or two or four Finder windows. Alfred (application launcher) includes some functionality to make working with files easier. Mine is set so Cmd-Opt-\ will pull the currently selected file(s) in the frontmost Finder window, and then you can perform an “Open With…”, or Copy/Move the file (you can just start typing the letters of the destination without browsing to it). Shortcat, Witch, Little Snitch, KeyRemap4MacBook are also fantastic. As for Page-Up and Page-Down, I tried to remember that Fn-Up is bound to Page-Up, and Fn-Down is bound to Page-Down, and therefore Home/End are bound to Fn-Left/Right. It becomes second nature after enough use. I agree that some of these things should be built in, but I think any operating system is going to have these kinds of issues. There’s no way to cater to everyone. I just wish some of these modifications to OS X felt a little less… hacky… (edit: formatting issues) |