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BTT is great man, it just allows you to configure any shortcut for any app. But the one key I use the most is assigning “`” key as the back button. You keep your hand on that key while surfing web or any app that has a back navigation, it’s just so much better than clicking or remembering each apps back shortcut. If you really need to type ` then you assign fn-` it’s really rarely used
My man must not write JS
I recently purchased a MacBook, and while I'm thoroughly impressed with the hardware, I find the keyboard navigation in the desktop environment somewhat lacking in comparison to my previous experience. Having used Linux Pop OS for many years, I've grown accustomed to the intuitive and powerful tiling window manager and keyboard navigation shortcuts it offers. I'm struggling to find a comparable solution on the macOS…
I know Raycast is getting a lot of attention right now but isn’t this a VC-backed SaaS? How do people feel about inviting them on to their desktop - aren’t you worried about the inevitable other shoe dropping?
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Just because this often comes up; I don't want to disable SIP. However I'm very happy with yabai.
I didn't realize it was possible to use it without disabling SIP, excited to give it another shot! AltTab with a few modifications is currently my preferred way to manage windows.
I recently purchased a MacBook, and while I'm thoroughly impressed with the hardware, I find the keyboard navigation in the desktop environment somewhat lacking in comparison to my previous experience. Having used Linux Pop OS for many years, I've grown accustomed to the intuitive and powerful tiling window manager and keyboard navigation shortcuts it offers. I'm struggling to find a comparable solution on the macOS…
I suspect the constant emphasis on mouse use, ever since the first Macintosh, has created an attitude of "keyboard doesn't matter"; I've noticed that even early Windows is very usable with only a keyboard (the Alt, underlined letters, and arrow keys method is particularly well-designed), whereas e.g. classic MacOS is basically unusable without a mouse. In later versions they added keyboard access, but it still feels…
It is kind of evolution, just for computers.
Macs early developed good pointing devices and as a result many keyboard related aspects can afford to be somewhere between weird and crazy.
Bonus for Mac people insisting everything is fine.
And I still consider getting a MacBook Pro next month, Windows PCs are that bad even with WSL :-/
Edit: at least these days, fn and ctrl can finally be remapped and CMD-tab can be fixed so it works consistently between two Firefox (or two Safari) windows, an IDE and Finder. It used to be that I would have to CMD-tab to the Firefox group, then CMD-| to get to the correct browser window and it was one of the things that truly messed up my workdays the last time I used Mac back in 2012. (No dedicated home/end buttons and every app seemingly being free to choose what shortcut they would use for it was probably the most painful one though.)
BTT is great man, it just allows you to configure any shortcut for any app. But the one key I use the most is assigning “`” key as the back button. You keep your hand on that key while surfing web or any app that has a back navigation, it’s just so much better than clicking or remembering each apps back shortcut. If you really need to type ` then you assign fn-` it’s really rarely used
My man must not write JS
Sure there are generally (sometimes better) alternatives in those but backticks are pretty common for me.
I recently purchased a MacBook, and while I'm thoroughly impressed with the hardware, I find the keyboard navigation in the desktop environment somewhat lacking in comparison to my previous experience. Having used Linux Pop OS for many years, I've grown accustomed to the intuitive and powerful tiling window manager and keyboard navigation shortcuts it offers. I'm struggling to find a comparable solution on the macOS…
I suspect the constant emphasis on mouse use, ever since the first Macintosh, has created an attitude of "keyboard doesn't matter"; I've noticed that even early Windows is very usable with only a keyboard (the Alt, underlined letters, and arrow keys method is particularly well-designed), whereas e.g. classic MacOS is basically unusable without a mouse. In later versions they added keyboard access, but it still feels…
In KDE it's pretty much a joke every time I have to save-as. Can't even get through that filesystem menu without a mouse unless it supports -l. Dolphin is slightly better, especially if you enable the console pane to make it easier to switch to the command line, but it's still way behind Apple's finder from 1999.
Apple has a pretty exhaustive list of so-called document shortcuts that I find particularly useful: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236#text
Ctrl+A and Ctrl+E in particular to jump to the beginning and end of a line are a pair that I use dozens of times per day.
Same with Opt+Delete to delete the previous word.
I use Opt+Left Arrow and Opt+Right Arrow to move the cursor back and forward by whole words so often that I didn't even think about including it in here until I unconsciously used it while editing text.
Also:
Cmd+Space brings up Spotlight and is a great way to launch apps and open documents.
I've used SizeUp for well over a decade to rearrange my Mac's open windows. It's literally the first app I install when I get a new computer. https://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/