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"Really? You miss that special "concrete gray and primary blue" feel?" Yes. I also miss being able to do everything with a keyboard shortcut. This is a much-

by rsync 11y ago

"Really? You miss that special "concrete gray and primary blue" feel?" Yes. I also miss being able to do everything with a keyboard shortcut. This is a much-overlooked feature of the Windows UI that I think is not given enough credit. I did it all in Windows - from 3.1 to NT3 to NT4 to XP - and I learned to hate hate the Windows OS and registries and so on ... But I always liked the UI and given the choice between the Mac UI (not the OS) and ... say ... NT4 or XP ... I would choose Windows as the UI. (FWIW, I do prefer a minimal ratpoison/ion UI over all of them)

ryanmcbride 11y ago
I prefer the modern flat design, but that's subjective. I agree with you about they keyboard shortcuts. I hate using a mouse it trackpad, it always feels slow and clunky. I recommend the vimium browser extension of you aren't already using it. Let's you navigate browsers better with your keyboard. Works best on chrome but there's a ff extension too.
WWLink 11y ago
But.. OS X has tons of hotkeys. You have 3 modifier keys, and the apple extended keyboards are symmetric around the space bar, which for some reason nobody else understands. Admittedly, ctrl+shift+f2 to get into the menu bar is a bit clunky, but you can change that to something simpler.
- 72deluxe 11y ago
  It's Ctrl-F2 for the menu bar isn't it? Ctrl-F3 for the dock, something obscure to reshow a hidden window, no idea about restoring a window from maximised state hence after-market ShiftIt installation. But in Windows you could really do everything with the keyboard, tabbing between controls, pressing shift-tab to go back. Oddly they went overboard in Windows 7 (or Vista?) and made the headers of list views in Explorer tabbable-to, which greatly slowed down Windows-E, tab tab tab tab to get to the pane on the right. F4 for the address bar, F2 to rename etc. etc. all good fun

by rsync 11y ago

ryanmcbride 11y ago

I prefer the modern flat design, but that's subjective. I agree with you about they keyboard shortcuts. I hate using a mouse it trackpad, it always feels slow and clunky. I recommend the vimium browser extension of you aren't already using it. Let's you navigate browsers better with your keyboard. Works best on chrome but there's a ff extension too.

WWLink 11y ago

But.. OS X has tons of hotkeys. You have 3 modifier keys, and the apple extended keyboards are symmetric around the space bar, which for some reason nobody else understands. Admittedly, ctrl+shift+f2 to get into the menu bar is a bit clunky, but you can change that to something simpler.

72deluxe 11y ago
It's Ctrl-F2 for the menu bar isn't it? Ctrl-F3 for the dock, something obscure to reshow a hidden window, no idea about restoring a window from maximised state hence after-market ShiftIt installation. But in Windows you could really do everything with the keyboard, tabbing between controls, pressing shift-tab to go back. Oddly they went overboard in Windows 7 (or Vista?) and made the headers of list views in Explorer tabbable-to, which greatly slowed down Windows-E, tab tab tab tab to get to the pane on the right. F4 for the address bar, F2 to rename etc. etc. all good fun