I've been constantly switching between my Linux PC and Mac. What a pain in the ass. Why can't they have same keyboard layout?

Don't hate me for this but linux seems more productive to me. Mostly because of the ease of use and the shortcuts. I mean yeah I can create new shortcuts and stuff for my Mac but why should I bother? Any productivity tips for mac?

I’m in the exact same situation.

Fortunately, my keyboard (Bluetooth) has a nice switch between Mac and standard layout. (It only swaps the alt and super). Which, by the way, you can do in iOS keyboard settings.

As for the rest of the shortcuts... best of luck. But at least i can type this way with fewer annoyances.

I still have no idea who’s brilliant idea it was to have home/end on a Mac go to the beginning/end of a document. Like really, just how often is that useful? Why not use command+home/end similar to every other platform out there?

Another reason why I continue to stay in Linux.

Same. I have an issue where both Windows and Linux use the Alt Gr key for some special characters and I can also use them to write {}[]()&$ really easily and Im used to it...

It literally works out of the box for both Windows and Linux... But Mac? Oh no... They have to be an exception...

So since I need to switch between my Linux and work Mac it keeps messing with my productivity, because I have to keep switching the way I interact with my keyboard...

It's ridiculous, Apple is so full of themselves they can't even adapt standard layouts from other countries... Fuck you Apple :)

I have more issues in Linux than I do in Windows for development. I used to run Linux as my desktop at home and did so for 10 years. Then my customer needed apps written for Windows 7. So I have been on Windows at home ever since. I primarily develop on Linux at work and Windows 10 secondary. I just find more issues with Linux that I do Windows. Like standard usability shit that shouldn't be an issues anymore, but Linux still has them. One that comes to mind is saving a file in a dialog for Firefox on Gnome. I have to click into the damn filename even though its highlighted to start editing. I see these small problems in Linux ALL THE TIME.

Now command line on Linux is awesome. Windows still has some issues there.

One glaring issue of development in Windows 10 is VM compatibility. Windows 10 has shit support for opengl on a VirtualBox. Annoying as crap. So much so I don't want to develop anything on Window unless its on a real system with real hardware.

I have nothing man :( I am a mac user, but if you want shortcuts and stuff like that on a mac it is very hard, counterintuitive to do in it.

Which is why I spend most of my time in either my Linux or Windows machines.

as much as I like the OS of apple, they have been doing a lot of things to make sure that you work under their idea of how you should work, and baby ain't cool with that even though I am not the strongest open source advocate.

Linux gives you far more control on that, but i understand that some people are practically forced to use macs

One of my biggest whims with mac is that you can't really snap windows... especially not with keyboard shortcuts. Download Rectangle or Magnet (very similar if not the same apps, Rectangle seems to be less resource "intensive").

I know a lot of devs use Fishshell already, but highly, highly recommend. If you're using VS Code I'd checkout Tabnine. Uses a fuck ton of ram but is very useful during longer sprints. I'd even go as far as to ask your manager if that could be a potential integration.

I've also assigned a handful of shortcuts and macros to my Logitech g502.

There's also some software out there that lets you use to different computers almost symbiotically. With my linux VM I can remote into it using NoMachine. You can transfer files, copy/paste, and more.