I’ve been a linux user for 20 years (mostly on KDE). I just started at a new job, and they gave me a mac. I found out later that I could have got a linux machine instead, which is a bit annoying. Still, I know there are some nice things about a mac, and I figured I’d give it a try for a while.
I’m pretty quick moving around my desktop environment, and I’m finding picking up the mac is not too bad. BUT I use keyboard shortcuts a lot, and they are all every different on a mac. So whenever I switch back and forth between my work machine, I end up stumbling a bunch and wasting my time, and getting annoyed. It’s mostly keyboard shortcuts, but the trackpad buttons and scrolling are annoying too.
So, question is: is it possible to regularly use two OSs with wildly different control surfaces, and be comfortable with it? e.g. either MacOS + Linux, or I guess MacOS + Windows? Or will it be annoying forever?
I’ve been Mac at home since 1998 and windows at work almost all of that time. I assume it’s the equivalent of being bilingual at this point.
I use both at the same desk. I even use the same (windows layout) keyboard on both, and somehow I’m even able to reflexively remember to switch which hotkeys I use, such as win+c and win+v instead of ctrl+c and ctrl+v for copy/paste. I did eventually have to switch the default scroll direction for my mouse wheel though, those being different was just too much lol
You can customize MacOS shortcuts and trackpad/mouse gestures and buttons to match whatever you’re used to (and more) using BetterTouchTool
It’s very popular software for this reason.
Have heard of that, will give it a crack, thanks!
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I find it incredibly annoying. Assuming dual boot or VDI to exclude physical differences, even things like the mouse scroll speed irritates me. Differences in scaling, differences in accomplishing simple but repetitive actions. I don’t have the patience for that anymore.
So you tried it for a while and gave up? How long?
Did Linux only for 5 years for college.
Did a Linux laptop for about 6 months now as my recreational device. Just re-imaged it tonight after your post reminded me that I’m not enthused with Linux.
I feel like there’s a wonderful emacs joke in there but I’m too sleepy to think of one.
Depends greatly on your own tolerance for adapting to different environments and mentally task switching between them.
I find it’s not too bad unless I’m panicking for whatever reason.
I probably wouldn’t get it unless you translate it to vim anyway 😘
Eh. There was a time when I was adept at macOS, windows, redhat, and SGI.
No context switching issues at all? If so, any ideas on how that came about?
No issues. I don’t know, it was in my early 20s. That was 20 years ago. It just wasn’t a big deal.
