N00b Mac vs Windows Questions

[Johnatan56]

Yeah muscle memory likely went to control.

And once you get used to Command you’ll find Ctrl+Tab ridiculously uncomfortable.


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You need to either curl your thumb under your hand, shift your entire hand left, or bend pinky quite a bit, none of them are as comfortable as alt+tab as it's less movement. There's a reason alt+tab is still there when win+tab exists on windows.

 

[SauRoN]

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You need to either curl your thumb under your hand, shift your entire hand left, or bend pinky quite a bit, none of them are as comfortable as alt+tab as it's less movement. There's a reason alt+tab is still there when win+tab exists on windows.

Thumb + Forefinger mate.

We’ve had this argument before and the conclusion was that you are just doing it wrong.

Shifting your entire hand with these shortcuts goes without saying for either platform, you can’t be in a normal typing position and achieve either.

You also forget an official Apple keyboard is a wee bit different from most Windows ones and has a short space bar so Command isn’t quite where Windows Key is and more halfway between Windows and Alt or sometimes overlapping with Alt even.


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[Johnatan56]

Thumb + Forefinger mate.

We’ve had this argument before and the conclusion was that you are just doing it wrong.

That's an Apple answer. We had a discussion on this before, proved you wrong based on ergonomic.

Shifting your entire hand with these shortcuts goes without saying for either platform

Don't need to for alt-tab, index finger on f, pinky finger by caps lock/tab, slight movement to get ring finger on tab and thumb on alt, getting it on windows key results in tucking in your thumb.

Windows shortcuts are overall more intuitive, just is, Apple does better though in forcing shortcut consistency throughout apps (e.g. cmd+q, but alt+F4 is also consistent there and over the years Windows/apps in general caught up especially as electron took over).

 

[DA-LION-619]

Equivalent Windows -> Mac

Alt-Tab -> ?

CheatSheet - Know your shortcuts

Just hold the ⌘-Key a bit longer to get a list of all active shortcuts of the current application

www.mediaatelier.com

Nifty feature on iPad OS which weirdly isn’t in Mac OS.

 

[Johnatan56]

CheatSheet - Know your shortcuts

Just hold the ⌘-Key a bit longer to get a list of all active shortcuts of the current application

www.mediaatelier.com

Nifty feature on iPad OS which weirdly isn’t in Mac OS.

Nice tool if it can really pick up all of an app's shortcuts.