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Things to think about in switching from macOS to Windows

#indows

apps are launched by pressing windows and typing. Apps can be lauched with sudo-like power by windows by pressing right then tapping down to hit open with admin rights.

start:

• install chocolatey from their website
• choco install vscode
• choco install spotify

Terminal:

Stable: Use WSL, this creates an install of ubuntu

Keyboard mastery:

• alt-f4 seems unreliable in powershell

• Pressing alt solo will switch your seelction to the window's menubar

• Control is often used as a modifier

• windows + directions is used for moving a window around

• windows + tab = expose + recent files (it's too slow to really use though, even on a fresh computer )

The taskbar defaults aren't really recommended by anyone:

• right click to get to settings

• remove search, cortana,

• remove extra icons like IE, store etc by ricght clicking and unpinning

• Things to read:

  • https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/microsoft-surface/7216/surface-book-tip-master-the-keyboard
  • https://www.howtogeek.com/115664/42-text-editing-keyboard-shortcuts-that-work-almost-everywhere/

Text Selection

• ctrl is used to jump words in selection