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> And you will also find such examples for MacOSX or Windows. If anyone wonders, here are three from Mac last I used it: - fn took the place of ctrl on the la

> And you will also find such examples for MacOSX or Windows. If anyone wonders, here are three from Mac last I used it: - fn took the place of ctrl on the laptop (but not the full keyboard). Unlike on Dell and Lenovo who also has this problem it could not be remapped neither at boot nor in the OS. - CMD - tab forced me to think ahead of time if I want to change to the last application or the last window of the same application. I.e. switching between two Safari instances takes a different key combination than switching between Safari and IntelliJ. - modifier keys worked differently between applications, e.g. selecting to the end of a word was either ctrl-shift, alt-shift or CMD-shift depending on application.

oefrha 6y ago
> CMD - tab forced me to think ahead of time if I want to change to the last application or the last window of the same application. I.e. switching between two Safari instances takes a different key combination than switching between Safari and IntelliJ. That’s a feature, not a bug. I personally hate having to tab through a million browser windows to find the application I need, or having to tab through unrelated applications when looking for a browser window, which is what I have to put up with when using Windows.
- eitland 6y ago
  It is a feature which replace another feature (stack based switching). It broke my flow multiple times a day for three years until I got a Windows machine again. I guess we are just differently wired, the idea of stopping to consider which shortcurt to use was neither natural nor possible for me at that age (around 30). KDE does this perfectly however. It defaults to Windows/classic Gnome 2 behaviour but can easily be configured however one wants it.
- silon42 6y ago
  It's not a feature for anyone used to standard alt+tab (and ctrl+tab). Often I wish switching between tabs was on first level too. I don't appreciate the Mac/Gnome way.
  - oefrha 6y ago
    “Standard” is just your habit built on another operating system. macOS has a fundamentally different application and window model, which is also why there’s a consistent application menu bar across all applications and windows, not what each app decides to invent or not invent for itself within the window.
pseudalopex 6y ago
macOS has more consistent keyboard shortcuts than Windows.[1] Some cross platform apps do their own thing. [1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236
wdobbels 6y ago
Things that annoy me on mac: - there's no volume mixer (each app having an individual volume slider) - no window snapping (before I bought BetterTouchTool, which includes window snapping, I had windows everywhere and it was just a mess) - column view in Finder is nice, it would be really useful to pick a new "root" folder for the viewer, or to move one directory up from the "root" Things that annoy me on windows: - No tabs in explorer. Imagine having a web browser that didn't have tabs, that's how bad this is. - No preview in explorer. Mac has this awesome feature where you press space and it gives a quick overview of most files (not only images but also pdfs, .docx, ...). - No column view. Column view makes it much easier to navigate across directories, and back and forth between subdirectories of a root directory.
- whywhywhywhy 6y ago
  I use both and really miss the spacebar Quicklook on Windows, I found this 3rd party app that adds it https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook and works better than I expected.

oefrha 6y ago

> CMD - tab forced me to think ahead of time if I want to change to the last application or the last window of the same application. I.e. switching between two Safari instances takes a different key combination than switching between Safari and IntelliJ. That’s a feature, not a bug. I personally hate having to tab through a million browser windows to find the application I need, or having to tab through unrelated applications when looking for a browser window, which is what I have to put up with when using Windows.

eitland 6y ago
It is a feature which replace another feature (stack based switching). It broke my flow multiple times a day for three years until I got a Windows machine again. I guess we are just differently wired, the idea of stopping to consider which shortcurt to use was neither natural nor possible for me at that age (around 30). KDE does this perfectly however. It defaults to Windows/classic Gnome 2 behaviour but can easily be configured however one wants it.
silon42 6y ago
It's not a feature for anyone used to standard alt+tab (and ctrl+tab). Often I wish switching between tabs was on first level too. I don't appreciate the Mac/Gnome way.
- oefrha 6y ago
  “Standard” is just your habit built on another operating system. macOS has a fundamentally different application and window model, which is also why there’s a consistent application menu bar across all applications and windows, not what each app decides to invent or not invent for itself within the window.

pseudalopex 6y ago

macOS has more consistent keyboard shortcuts than Windows.[1] Some cross platform apps do their own thing. [1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236

wdobbels 6y ago

Things that annoy me on mac: - there's no volume mixer (each app having an individual volume slider) - no window snapping (before I bought BetterTouchTool, which includes window snapping, I had windows everywhere and it was just a mess) - column view in Finder is nice, it would be really useful to pick a new "root" folder for the viewer, or to move one directory up from the "root" Things that annoy me on windows: - No tabs in explorer. Imagine having a web browser that didn't have tabs, that's how bad this is. - No preview in explorer. Mac has this awesome feature where you press space and it gives a quick overview of most files (not only images but also pdfs, .docx, ...). - No column view. Column view makes it much easier to navigate across directories, and back and forth between subdirectories of a root directory.

whywhywhywhy 6y ago
I use both and really miss the spacebar Quicklook on Windows, I found this 3rd party app that adds it https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook and works better than I expected.