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As a lifetime windows user that just recently joined a macBook company, i have to say i am indifferent overall, but there have been many alternating moments of
by geoffmanning 5y ago
As a lifetime windows user that just recently joined a macBook company, i have to say i am indifferent overall, but there have been many alternating moments of delightful surprises and annoyances of unmet expectations in my journey to learn the MacOS UX.
I'm a month in now and i have to say that attitude is everything when it comes to learning something new, and, especially when you know something "kind of like this", you have to be very careful not to let your unmet expectations of something similar sour the experience.
When i started with Windows as a kid i didn't have a "choice" in the matter, it's just what we had, and i had to learn all those tricks and tips along the way to improve my user experience. If i used that to temper the curve of getting a good user experience from my Mac i'd have to say that Mac got it closer to the target by a magnitude.
So, when you don't get the experience you need, instead of defaulting to "this is dumb", ask yourself why they did it this way, and why you expect it that way, and then if you still want it that way after considering a new perspective, chances are there's an app for that.
Stay curious, my friends.
- godelski 5y agoI think the thing that was hardest for me to learn is navigating the folder systems. Luckily I can use a terminal.
- turbocon 5y agoThis, I'm not sure why people don't talk about as much but Finder is awful and I've not been able to find a replacement.
- godelski 5y agoYeah I've been surprised no one cares about this. It is great going forward from your cwd but hard to move back and where is home?
- bobbylarrybobby 4y agoBack is left. (In column mode, at least). Home is cmd-shift-H, or using the general purpose path navigator with cmd-G it's just tilde
- m_mueller 5y agoUse cmd-up to go up a level. That button is the main thing I missed. The columns view is actually very useful. One thing I miss a lot on Windows: quick look with space.
- alsetmusic 4y agoSorta late to the discussion, but hope these help you: Path Finder https://www.cocoatech.io/ https://www.cocoatech.io/ ForkLift https://binarynights.com/ https://binarynights.com/
- niemenmaa 5y agoAgreed! It has taken me so much time to get accustomed to Finder. Often it is just the command line and then `open <path>`if finder is needed. There are some shortcuts to make Finder usage more enjoyable: - Shift+Command+H go to Home - Command+Up go to parent folder - Command+Down go in to selected folder - Shift+Command+G go to written path Also Option+Command+P toggles "Path Bar" at the bottom of the window
- OJFord 5y agoI spend the vast majority of my non-browser time on the command line, but sometimes for some things for some reason I prefer a GUI file browser - shuffling around 'admin documents', bills etc. rather than programming stuff or anything I've written in a text-based format. Maybe it's just because I grew up with Windows & File Explorer, so that's what I'm accustomed to for that sort of thing. For that, Finder is maybe the one thing I miss from macOS. Haven't found one for Linux that works well and doesn't have surprising click/select/rename behaviour for example. (I'm using Elementary's 'Files' at the moment (not on its distro) certainly open to any suggestions.)
- godelski 5y agoDolphin browser is pretty similar except you can find home and go up directories.