I had not ever used a Mac until the recent decision by the computer science department to change all of the PC's in pastalab to mac.
That being said, I'd like to make note of a couple of things about Macs coming from a pc user.
In terms of natural mapping, macs really tend to confuse me due to lack of right click on the mouse. I also find it incredibly frustrating that all of the shortcuts, which are ctrl-something on the pc, have changed to command-something on the mac. Both of these changes seem to be ignorant attempts of making themselves appear to be different from the pc, but has only really lead to tedious moments trying to figure out why copy and paste isn't working.
I feel the same way. I have stopped going to the pasta lab to do work just because there are macs in there now. When i try to use the macs i spend more time trying to figure out how to do simple things in a mac than i do actually working on the project/work i should be doing. An example of this is when i was working on an application i had no idea that the "file" button was at the top of the screen on the grey bar instead of being inside the application's window. Macs just confuse the hell out of me.
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