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so i’ve officially been a working girl for 7 weeks now. a number of people (mostly people still in school) have asked me what I found to be the biggest adjustment so far.
one would reasonably assume it would be something like having to work for many hours straight (as opposed to in college where you have all those random breaks throughout the day) or not getting things like fall break or summer vacation
however, so far nothing can compare to using a PC all day long and then switching to a mac at night. my god, rarely before have I been so disoriented. my related grievances / sources of OS-stress include (but are not limited to):
- the absence of hot corners on PCs
- being able to go backwards on the alt-tab* menu by pushing alt ~ on macs but not on PCs
- ctrl-c, ctrl-v, etc. versus cmd-c, cmd-v
- um, google chrome
- spaces
this must be how people feel when they live part-time in the United Kingdom or Kenya and part-time in the USA and they have to drive on different sides of the road depending on their current location
gahh my life is so hard
*that said, a special shout-out to alt-tab is necessary for its cross-OS consistency. thank you for keeping me marginally sane
I feel your pain! I’ve been a bi-operating system user for a while.
Do what you can to find keyboard shortcuts that are the same on each OS (for example, I think command-shift-tab cycles backwards on PCs and Macs).
