What is your personal preference based on experience? I Assume because Mac is Unix and Linux is Unix based, it would be more suited, but I have no personal experience with the layout. I am willing to try something new if i hear enough merits for it, and I also find the windows layout somewhat inadequate(The grass is greener on the other side /s)

I dailydrive Gnome, I am not a programmer, but i am a power user

(On a tangent: Why is gnome so restrictive, it feels like its missing a ton of UI features that are trivial without a boatload of 3rd party extensions that break every update; why doesn’t Win+Shift+number launch a new instance, every other DE does, why doesn’t it?; I don’t use KDE because I just don’t like it, I feel Gnome could be way more if it just natively integrated the extensions ).

aesthetically the windows key annoys me and i hate putting stickers on keyboards; I like how the mac layout looks(My very minimal experience with an in store mac-book has cautioned me away from the fisher-price OS so i don’t know if it is intuitive to use)

  • N0x0n@lemmy.ml
    61·
    9 months ago

    Hummm… personal preference, but when I SSH into a linux server with my Mac… I totally hate the keyboard shortcuts… They are driving me crazy.

    Windows keyboard shortcuts, feel more “native” and easier to use.

    Can’t explain it, but while I used both, I totally hate the mac keyboard shortcut keys.

    Doing something like CMD + Option + bsp that reflects to alt + bsp on windows… :/

    • Zanshi@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 months ago

      Huh, interesting. Since I got a Mac at work I have problems going back as command/alt + key feel a lot more natural than control + key.

      • smoothbrain coldtakesEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        I think it boils down to preference of thumb vs pinky. The ergo choice is thumb but the conditioned choice is pinky.