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I picked up a 13" Macbook (unibody) at the end of last year because I was looking to do some iPhone/iPod Touch development. I'd always wanted to give OS X a go

I picked up a 13" Macbook (unibody) at the end of last year because I was looking to do some iPhone/iPod Touch development. I'd always wanted to give OS X a go because of the underlying system and I've become a big fan of the OS. I'd have to say that the biggest thing holding me back from doing extensive development on the OS, though, is the lack of "Home" and "End" buttons (it's the small things, I guess). I know there's Command+Left/Right but it's just such a weird keystroke and if I want to select a line it's not End, Shift+Home. I have to press Command+Right, Shift+Command+Left and it just feels like a lot of unnecessary keystrokes. I also don't like the fact there's no built-in solution for mouse acceleration. I want it turned off but from what I've read in my searches there's no way to do it without running a separate program to do it for you.

softbuilder 17y ago
Text editing on the keyboard also drove me crazy for a while. You do get used to it. My lingering complaints: the insane placement of Cmd for Cut/Copy/Paste (talk about a Vulcan Nerve Pinch!) and the mental shift required when switching back and forth between the GUI and the shell. (Mainly that's remembering to switch to/from Control/Cmd).
- ZeroGravitas 17y ago
  But that's the best bit! I love using Command-C to cut and paste throughout the OS including the terminal, rather than having to switch to Control-Shift-C for certain things as you do under Gnome, where forgetting means canceling something.
FraaJad 17y ago
Ctrl+A and Ctrl+E works as Home and End on mac. The same key combination as on Linux.
octane 17y ago
> is the lack of "Home" and "End" buttons Every single new Mac user has a "critical missing feature" that turns out not to be so missing after all once they actually read the docs about the literally thousands of keyboard shortcuts that they can call upon.

softbuilder 17y ago

Text editing on the keyboard also drove me crazy for a while. You do get used to it. My lingering complaints: the insane placement of Cmd for Cut/Copy/Paste (talk about a Vulcan Nerve Pinch!) and the mental shift required when switching back and forth between the GUI and the shell. (Mainly that's remembering to switch to/from Control/Cmd).

ZeroGravitas 17y ago
But that's the best bit! I love using Command-C to cut and paste throughout the OS including the terminal, rather than having to switch to Control-Shift-C for certain things as you do under Gnome, where forgetting means canceling something.

FraaJad 17y ago

Ctrl+A and Ctrl+E works as Home and End on mac. The same key combination as on Linux.

octane 17y ago

> is the lack of "Home" and "End" buttons Every single new Mac user has a "critical missing feature" that turns out not to be so missing after all once they actually read the docs about the literally thousands of keyboard shortcuts that they can call upon.