Frustrated Windows 10 users are jumping ship to macOS.

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[+] 59 points 1 year ago (13 children)
  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    The immediate regret will be when they discover that Ctrl isn't where they expect it to be, followed by the discovery that it doesn't get used for copy and paste anyway.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The very first thing I did was swap around ctrl and cmd on my mechanical keyboard.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I found a setting to switch the key functions, but it still doesn't help with the other differences. I just have to learn to mentally change gears when using a Mac.

    Moving the cursor by words, for example, is ctrl-cursor on PC, but option-cursor on Mac. So switching Ctrl/Fn doesn't help with that.

    Not to mention tapping on the screen to select something does not go well on the Mac...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    You can use Linux-like text navigation on macOS: ctrl-a goes to the start of the line, ctrl-e to the end, ctrl-f forward, etc.

    I mostly use Windows, macOS second, with some Linux in distant third. Yet those Unix-style bindings are what I miss most in Windows applications that don’t support remapping.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Over a decade in and I haven’t internalized the text selection and cursor movement differences TBH. You can rebind the system key combos though if it really bothers you that much. I’m just not really using the keyboard as much anymore now that I use a trackpad for everything.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    So far my only gripe with MacOS is my inability to remember how to copy paste.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Don't know if it's still there cause I haven't used a Mac since 2007, but if you go to the Control Panel and then the keyboard settings, there should be an setting to rearrange the function of the Control, Option, and Command keys so that they behave just like Control, Super, and Alt do in Linux and Windows.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Part of me wishes I was a Windows user because Microsoft gives so many good reasons to switch to Linux. But even though I don’t use any of Apple’s services, I’m just too well off on macOS, got no real reason to switch.

    Not saying macOS will never suck, and it already does in some aspects, but its suck factor has been pretty stable for the last 15 years I’ve been using it.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    It’s really sad that macOS is the only major operating system that functions on API calls for UI elements and system calls. Part of what makes windows awful is the terrible UI inconsistencies between apps. 3rd party app can’t hook into the system or each other easily because there are so few shared APIs. It’s crazy that macOS has the best utility apps all because of the shared API library and that the other operating systems don’t want to copy or unify with them.

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