Monday 13 April 2015

My MAC venture

I am an ardent fan of Linux and the regular user of windows (Of course, have grown-up with it). Experimented with various flavors of linux (viz., RedHat, Fedora, SuSE, CentOS etc.,) and several versions of Windows. However, was always reluctant to try Mac systems. Though, I keep hearing lot of good things about Mac, but never attempted at it. Finally, broken the ice and gave it a try. Found a bit confusing but interesting. Especially having used windows GUI since a long time. Sharing my learning and experience though this blog. This article shall be helpful for those switching/adapting to Mac machines with windows/linux background like me. It primarily aims at comparing Windows and OS/X. Examples mentioned in this article are with reference to Yosemite (10.x) version of OS/X

Note: This blog is work-in-progress and shall be updated continuously as and when I come across new stuff

System Administration Tools

DescriptionWindowsLinuxOS X
Software/Package Management ToolsYum, zypper,apt-get etc.,Homebrew
Process/Task ManagementTask ManagertopActivity Monitor


Keyboard Mapping

The Option key on a Mac is the same as the Alt key in Windows.
The Command (cmd) key works in a similar way to the Control key in Windows. 
The most common use of Control key on Mac is to mimic the right click action.
Additional information available at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/970299
Some of the frequently used keys are provided below


DescriptionWindowsLinuxOS X
ControlCtrl
Command (mostly) or Control (sometimes)
AlternateAlt
Option

Windows/Start
Command/Apple
EraseBackspace/Del
delete

Shortcuts (Key-combinations)

Additional information at https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236
Some of the useful shortcuts provided below for reference.

DescriptionWindowsLinuxOS X
CopyCtrl + C
Command+C
CutCtrl + V
Command+V
PasteCtrl + V
Command+C
RedoCtrl + Z
Command+Z
LockCtrl + Alt +Del
Control+Shift+Power




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