[SOLVED] Built my first hackintosh, teach me about mac os

[amuffin]

Can someone teach me how to use the general ui of mac os? I know instead of control its command and its kind of like windows...? Can someone tell me all of the cool features to expect?

 

[molo9000]

It's not difficult to learn. Lots of small quirks that are unfamiliar at first and several UI features like Expose (Think it's called Mission Control in 10.7 Lion. Haven't upgraded to Lion yet) and Spaces (virtual desktops), but nothing that you can't figure out on your own.

A few things that are unfamiliar to Windows users:

- Closing a window (clicking the red x in the top left corner of the window, or pressing cmd+w) does not quit the application it belongs to. If you want to actually quit an application, hit cmd+q.
- There are no "OK" or "Apply" or "Cancel" buttons on preference windows. If you change a preference, it takes effect immediately.
- cmd + alt + esc opens the "force quit application" menu, allowing you to quit unresponsive applications
- The "Activity Monitor" is the equivalent to the Task Manager in Windows. (quickest way to launch it is to hit cmd+space (spotlight) and type "activity monitor" ("act" should be enough in most cases) and hit enter.
- There is no "cmd+x" (Cut) command in the Finder. If you want to move ("cut&paste") files you have to first copy (cmd+c) and then "move items here" (command + alt + v). This "feature" is new in 10.7 Lion. Before that it was drag+drop only if you wanted to move files....
- Saving files works differently in 10.7 Lion. It's partially automatic. Don't ask me how it works. Haven't used it yet.
- the alt key is sometimes referred to as the option key
- the command key is sometimes referred to as the apple-key, because there used to be an Apple logo on it.

 

[amuffin]

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[amuffin]

Ok! Thanks!

 

[amdfangirl]

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