Reply to: Just curious

[BackupBoy]

I have recently acquired a MAC to go along side my windows laptop at work.

What I need to investigate are the swipe gestures etc as I think that will make using the mac easier as sometimes I do something - think that will be useful but have no idea what I did.

Other times I do something and think that is pointless - but still have no idea what I did...

There's very useful guidance for those built into the trackpad or mouse Preferences.

My wife (a resolutely non-technical person) has just moved to macOS from Win7 and apart from some hilarity over Ctrl versus Command she's doing fine.

I made sure all her most used apps (iTunes, Thunderbird, Chrome, etc) were all setup the same way. No problems so far.

imore.com has some good tutorials too.

[original PM]

Yep pointed her in the direction of YouTube but looking for something along the lines that hansleman did for windows. But she set up few things last night and is ok.

I have recently acquired a MAC to go along side my windows laptop at work.

What I need to investigate are the swipe gestures etc as I think that will make using the mac easier as sometimes I do something - think that will be useful but have no idea what I did.

Other times I do something and think that is pointless - but still have no idea what I did...

[woohoo]

It took me some getting used to. Having to flip between Windows (for work) and Mac (for home) doesn't help.

Youtube has lots of good videos "how to XXXX mac" or in fact just Google for lots of great info. Hope she figures it out soon!

Yep pointed her in the direction of YouTube but looking for something along the lines that hansleman did for windows. But she set up few things last night and is ok.

[SueEllen]

It took me some getting used to. Having to flip between Windows (for work) and Mac (for home) doesn't help.

The thing that annoys me most is their bloody keyboard.

And I'm never allowed to remap it because the Mac isn't my own and even home Mac users like to be "special".

[d000hg]

MS-DOS 3.3

3.3 was a good year.

[Platypus]

Mentioned it in this thread but Miss WooHoo hates her new mac. Anyone have any short but good tutorials she could use to get to know her mac better?

It took me some getting used to. Having to flip between Windows (for work) and Mac (for home) doesn't help.

Youtube has lots of good videos "how to XXXX mac" or in fact just Google for lots of great info. Hope she figures it out soon!

[AtW]

MS-DOS 3.3

[NickFitz]

Mentioned it in this thread but Miss WooHoo hates her new mac. Anyone have any short but good tutorials she could use to get to know her mac better?

There are various tutorials on Apple's site: https://support.apple.com/explore/new-to-mac and also a bunch of useful stuff at MacWorld: Mac tips and tutorials: everything you need to know to set up your new Mac - How to - Macworld UK

[quackhandle]

Microsoft? Linux? It's all the same really....

FFS, GL, where do you find these pics?

Edit: Win10 and 7 on the old lappy. None on the fanbois stuff in this house.

qh

[darmstadt]

Windows 10 actually comes with something called WSL - Windows Subsystem for Linux:

WSL requires fewer resources (CPU, memory, and storage) than a full virtualized machine. WSL also allows you to run Linux command-line tools and apps alongside your Windows command-line, desktop and store apps, and to access your Windows files from within Linux. This enables you to use Windows apps and Linux command-line tools on the same set of files if you wish.

And what I've been using for quite a while is basically BASH on Ubuntu on Windows: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/about

[woohoo]

Mentioned it in this thread but Miss WooHoo hates her new mac. Anyone have any short but good tutorials she could use to get to know her mac better?

[vetran]

Microsoft? Linux? It's all the same really....

Typical Linux the pinko OS.

[greenlake]

Microsoft? Linux? It's all the same really....

[d000hg]

I'm a Windows man. I was a big W7 fan and updated my main PC to W8 with some concern, though actually I didn't mind it much especially once 8.1 came out. W10 is pretty great in my opinion.

I also have a Mac (Mini) but Mac just doesn't feel natural to me even after a fair bit of use.

[VectraMan]

W10 on laptop and desktop at home now. Ex-client co's PC is Windows 7. I use a few Linux Mint VMs, a Windows 7 VM, and an old XP VM to build some ancient software.

2017 will be the year of Linux. You'll see.