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That is amusing because to me one of the largest abominations about mac is the keyboard layout and mappings. It's terrible for anyone with decent sized hands t

That is amusing because to me one of the largest abominations about mac is the keyboard layout and mappings. It's terrible for anyone with decent sized hands to accomplish anything of even medium complexity.

snazz 1mo ago
Do you take issue with wrapping your thumb under your palm to hit command/option, or is it something else?
- wtallis 1mo ago
  I wonder if the dislike comes from using third-party keyboards with excessively wide spacebars that make the modifier keys genuinely hard to reach with a thumb.
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trompetenaccoun 1mo ago
I'm not a fan myself but needing to only memorize one set of commands and keyboard shortcuts is plus for sure. It's one of the biggest annoyances when switching between operating systems.
- gerdesj 1mo ago
  IT is a bit of a journey (as is life). I started off with a ZX80 kit and some bluetac ... I've lost count of how many interfaces I've had to fenangle to get a job done. For 20 odd years I rocked Gentoo as my daily driver but my lap can't take the heat any more. Wifey gets Arch and I've settled on Ubuntu for a simple life. Embarrassingly enough, I had to get a "child" to explain to me how to get a wine dispenser to work, recently 8)
  - trompetenaccoun 1mo ago
    The latest version of Ubuntu works great. They've come such a long way, it actually feels comfortable recommending Linux to beginners now. Here's to hoping they don't turn into Microsoft one day.
    - gerdesj 1mo ago
      Ubuntu is really polished these days. I rock Kubuntu myself and just migrated my Dad to it from Win 10 (no Win 11 on that box). I have two members of staff who have asked me to migrate them over. I just need to get "drive mappings" stable and it looks like SMB over QUIC might do the trick. Canonical show no signs of going evil empire and even if they did there are plenty of options, starting with Debian!
whalesalad 1mo ago
20 years of mac use has me feeling severely handicapped without it.

snazz 1mo ago

Do you take issue with wrapping your thumb under your palm to hit command/option, or is it something else?

wtallis 1mo ago
I wonder if the dislike comes from using third-party keyboards with excessively wide spacebars that make the modifier keys genuinely hard to reach with a thumb.
- deleted 1mo ago
  [deleted]

trompetenaccoun 1mo ago

I'm not a fan myself but needing to only memorize one set of commands and keyboard shortcuts is plus for sure. It's one of the biggest annoyances when switching between operating systems.

gerdesj 1mo ago
IT is a bit of a journey (as is life). I started off with a ZX80 kit and some bluetac ... I've lost count of how many interfaces I've had to fenangle to get a job done. For 20 odd years I rocked Gentoo as my daily driver but my lap can't take the heat any more. Wifey gets Arch and I've settled on Ubuntu for a simple life. Embarrassingly enough, I had to get a "child" to explain to me how to get a wine dispenser to work, recently 8)
- trompetenaccoun 1mo ago
  The latest version of Ubuntu works great. They've come such a long way, it actually feels comfortable recommending Linux to beginners now. Here's to hoping they don't turn into Microsoft one day.
  - gerdesj 1mo ago
    Ubuntu is really polished these days. I rock Kubuntu myself and just migrated my Dad to it from Win 10 (no Win 11 on that box). I have two members of staff who have asked me to migrate them over. I just need to get "drive mappings" stable and it looks like SMB over QUIC might do the trick. Canonical show no signs of going evil empire and even if they did there are plenty of options, starting with Debian!

whalesalad 1mo ago

20 years of mac use has me feeling severely handicapped without it.