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Moving soon to macOS as long time Linux user (szmer.info)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey, I will move soon to macOS as my main os. I am currently using Linux as my main os and from what I know, macOS is similar to Linux. I also wanted to ask some questions beforehand: There are few cli package managers for macOS but which one is the best? Will it be hard for me to use macOS if I am using currently Linux? Which keys on mac keyboard work same as keys on windows keyboard?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

            
              Package mgr: homebrew
macOS is true Unix, based on BSD
default shell is zfs but you can switch
it will only be hard if you don't RTFM, aka the Help menu in every gui app, and if you tinker with low level hw settings like on linux
Instead of Ctrl you use Cmd key, but otherwise many kb shortcuts are the same across all 3 major os

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Oh, pay attention to the windowing system: an application that can open more than one window at once can also run with no windows open, and one-window apps like system settings quit when you close the window.