I’ve been a linux user for 20 years (mostly on KDE). I just started at a new job, and they gave me a mac. I found out later that I could have got a linux machine instead, which is a bit annoying. Still, I know there are some nice things about a mac, and I figured I’d give it a try for a while.

I’m pretty quick moving around my desktop environment, and I’m finding picking up the mac is not too bad. BUT I use keyboard shortcuts a lot, and they are all every different on a mac. So whenever I switch back and forth between my work machine, I end up stumbling a bunch and wasting my time, and getting annoyed. It’s mostly keyboard shortcuts, but the trackpad buttons and scrolling are annoying too.

So, question is: is it possible to regularly use two OSs with wildly different control surfaces, and be comfortable with it? e.g. either MacOS + Linux, or I guess MacOS + Windows? Or will it be annoying forever?

  • Brkdncr@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I find it incredibly annoying. Assuming dual boot or VDI to exclude physical differences, even things like the mouse scroll speed irritates me. Differences in scaling, differences in accomplishing simple but repetitive actions. I don’t have the patience for that anymore.

      • Brkdncr@lemmy.world
        01·
        2 months ago

        Did Linux only for 5 years for college.

        Did a Linux laptop for about 6 months now as my recreational device. Just re-imaged it tonight after your post reminded me that I’m not enthused with Linux.