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Does Windows muscle memory work? The vast majority of shortcuts are completely different for the casual user, and for the power user, there's no regedit or cont

by Pay08 5mo ago

Does Windows muscle memory work? The vast majority of shortcuts are completely different for the casual user, and for the power user, there's no regedit or control panel and other such things.

nottorp 5mo ago
> there's no regedit or control panel and other such things That's not a bug, it's a feature.
- Pay08 5mo ago
  Be that as it may, it means that the muscle memory (or more accurately, the mental model of the system) is gone. I've long held the belief that power users or knows-enough-to-be-dangerous users have a harder time switching for that exact reason. A control panel (or cross-distro YaST) would be very welcome in the ecosystem I think.
  - delecti 5mo ago
    > muscle memory (or more accurately, the mental model of the system) That's not "more accurately", that's just a completely different thing. When I'm on Mac, my muscle memory is thrown off. I'll be typing and my ctrl+s, alt+tab, win+4, ctrl+left* all cause wildly unpredictable (to me) things. I'm currently using Linux, and all of those things work how I expect (with a tiny asterisk on win+#). When I want a control panel, I press the windows button on my keyboard to open something functionally equivalent to the start menu, and open System Settings to get something functionally equivalent to the control panel. I have no doubt that I could learn the deep differences between Windows and Mac over time, but the initial muscle memory causes me stress before I get to that point. When I switch to Linux I don't have that stress, and so I've been comfortably learning those differences. * - save, switch to the previously in-focus window, switch to the 4th program on the taskbar, move the cursor one word to the left
- stavros 5mo ago
  We weren't talking about whether the registry was better or worse, we were talking about how similar the two OSes were.
  - nottorp 5mo ago
    ... in case of the registry, you were also talking about replacing a unix philosophy system (each application has its own standalone config file) with a windows like monolith (everything goes into the registry). Tbh it's not even muscle memory, how often do you edit config files?
MisterTea 5mo ago
Alt-Tab to cycle windows.

by Pay08 5mo ago

Does Windows muscle memory work? The vast majority of shortcuts are completely different for the casual user, and for the power user, there's no regedit or control panel and other such things.

nottorp 5mo ago

> there's no regedit or control panel and other such things That's not a bug, it's a feature.

Pay08 5mo ago
Be that as it may, it means that the muscle memory (or more accurately, the mental model of the system) is gone. I've long held the belief that power users or knows-enough-to-be-dangerous users have a harder time switching for that exact reason. A control panel (or cross-distro YaST) would be very welcome in the ecosystem I think.
- delecti 5mo ago
  > muscle memory (or more accurately, the mental model of the system) That's not "more accurately", that's just a completely different thing. When I'm on Mac, my muscle memory is thrown off. I'll be typing and my ctrl+s, alt+tab, win+4, ctrl+left* all cause wildly unpredictable (to me) things. I'm currently using Linux, and all of those things work how I expect (with a tiny asterisk on win+#). When I want a control panel, I press the windows button on my keyboard to open something functionally equivalent to the start menu, and open System Settings to get something functionally equivalent to the control panel. I have no doubt that I could learn the deep differences between Windows and Mac over time, but the initial muscle memory causes me stress before I get to that point. When I switch to Linux I don't have that stress, and so I've been comfortably learning those differences. * - save, switch to the previously in-focus window, switch to the 4th program on the taskbar, move the cursor one word to the left
stavros 5mo ago
We weren't talking about whether the registry was better or worse, we were talking about how similar the two OSes were.
- nottorp 5mo ago
  ... in case of the registry, you were also talking about replacing a unix philosophy system (each application has its own standalone config file) with a windows like monolith (everything goes into the registry). Tbh it's not even muscle memory, how often do you edit config files?

MisterTea 5mo ago

Alt-Tab to cycle windows.