Now I’m getting into the hard stuff.
Remember the old sales rule that 80% of business comes from 20% of customers? I’ve found that rule applies to a lot more than sales. House renovations, upgrading equipment, learning new systems — so many things seem easy for the first 80%, and then the last 20% becomes frustratingly difficult.
That’s where I’m at with the Mac.
My biggest frustration so far is Finder. It’s like Windows Explorer on steroids sometimes… and a brick wall at others. The logic just doesn’t make sense to me yet.
I’ve got more than 20 years of Windows muscle memory built up — keyboard shortcuts, little hacks, and workflows that let me do things quickly without even thinking about it. Moving to Mac has thrown all of that out the window.
Mac seems to want you to use a mouse for everything.
Take renaming a file. On Windows, you hit F2 and you’re done. Simple. On the Mac? Right-click, choose Rename, and it takes longer than it should.
Then there’s dragging files between folders. In Windows, I always knew what would happen. On the Mac, holding the CMD key while dragging from one Finder window to another is supposed to move the file… except sometimes it copies it instead. Sometimes it moves it. I still haven’t worked out the rulebook Finder is playing by.
Maybe long-time Mac users think this all makes perfect sense. Right now, though, it feels like I’m learning to write with the wrong hand.