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<blockquote data-quote="MacsWork" data-source="post: 858081" data-attributes="member: 11094"><p>Seems like a Linux user should know how to use a keyboard. Ctrl+E and Ctrl+A sound familiar. Ever buy a new PC laptop and have no idea where home, end and delete even are?</p><p></p><p>Apple users have been using the cmd or key to navigate with the keyboard as well as launch applications since the dawn of time. If you poll most windows users they don't know what right clicking is for as a basic function nor do they know that simply using the enter key launches apps and opens folders. They just don't know. What about windows key+L or windows key+M or windows key+E. These seem like really useful shortcuts for windows users who have zero clue.</p><p></p><p>People talk about Macs as being simplistic because they are. They give you what you need and take away what 95% of people will not concern themselves with. People like yourself will take the time to learn the OS's specifics and are interested in the tips and tricks to achieve computing nirvana. You are in the 5% category. The 95% isn't missing from the OS it is just a keyboard shortcut or preference change away. Tell me switching to Vista or pre release 7 (Vista 2.0) was simplistic. I use both and can tell you that XP to either of the two required time to figure out where MS was going.</p><p></p><p>I work in IT and can tell you that windows users (95% that is) not only don't know how to use their OS, them simply don't care. The same can be said about Mac users though. They just have a chip on their shoulder so they tell you how great it is to be a Mac user yet put them to the test and they can't talk their way out of a wet paper bag. It doesn't make Macs better, but PC users don't do themselves any favors by seeming so uneducated and uninterested. </p><p></p><p>That said I am a life long Mac user who simply prefers Macs. </p><p></p><p>Mac switchers switch because they want something. Wether that something is to be cool, because they want what someone else has, because they think that all their problems will be solved. What ever it is it is going to present them with the task of comparing. BECAUSE THEY AREN'T THE SAME! If people were to switch to Mac because they were impressed that the keyboard functionality was just like windows I would say great, hope you don't mind that the navigation app is called Finder and not Explorer and that we call it System Preferences and not Control Panels.</p><p></p><p>Some people will HATE Macs after a switch. I've seen that too. And some people buy Zunes because they think they will burst into flames.</p><p></p><p>End of rant.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacsWork, post: 858081, member: 11094"] Seems like a Linux user should know how to use a keyboard. Ctrl+E and Ctrl+A sound familiar. Ever buy a new PC laptop and have no idea where home, end and delete even are? Apple users have been using the cmd or key to navigate with the keyboard as well as launch applications since the dawn of time. If you poll most windows users they don't know what right clicking is for as a basic function nor do they know that simply using the enter key launches apps and opens folders. They just don't know. What about windows key+L or windows key+M or windows key+E. These seem like really useful shortcuts for windows users who have zero clue. People talk about Macs as being simplistic because they are. They give you what you need and take away what 95% of people will not concern themselves with. People like yourself will take the time to learn the OS's specifics and are interested in the tips and tricks to achieve computing nirvana. You are in the 5% category. The 95% isn't missing from the OS it is just a keyboard shortcut or preference change away. Tell me switching to Vista or pre release 7 (Vista 2.0) was simplistic. I use both and can tell you that XP to either of the two required time to figure out where MS was going. I work in IT and can tell you that windows users (95% that is) not only don't know how to use their OS, them simply don't care. The same can be said about Mac users though. They just have a chip on their shoulder so they tell you how great it is to be a Mac user yet put them to the test and they can't talk their way out of a wet paper bag. It doesn't make Macs better, but PC users don't do themselves any favors by seeming so uneducated and uninterested. That said I am a life long Mac user who simply prefers Macs. Mac switchers switch because they want something. Wether that something is to be cool, because they want what someone else has, because they think that all their problems will be solved. What ever it is it is going to present them with the task of comparing. BECAUSE THEY AREN'T THE SAME! If people were to switch to Mac because they were impressed that the keyboard functionality was just like windows I would say great, hope you don't mind that the navigation app is called Finder and not Explorer and that we call it System Preferences and not Control Panels. Some people will HATE Macs after a switch. I've seen that too. And some people buy Zunes because they think they will burst into flames. End of rant. [/QUOTE]
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