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I recently (about two weeks ago) bought my first Apple ever, a Macbook Pro.

It took forever to find out function+backspace=real backspace not delete

Everything seems to be arranged around single clicks any right-clicking seems alien on a Mac.

It's very glossy and cartoons but you can tell the hardware and OS were made hand-in-hand or at least work very well with each other.

It's pretty but annoying at times it's has a hint of like Linux, I opened Terminal to feel at home, but it's like Linux out at its grandmothers on it's best behaviour.

I wouldn't say either is better than the other but different for sure although like I said very similar way more so than Windows and Linux or Mac and Windows.

Now if only I could stop that creepy "killer clowns on acid in a dark alley" start-up sound.

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Welcome to the hivemind. :-)

I have grown very accustomed to the control-click motion for 'right' clicking. I don't think right-clicking is very alien, at least in the programs I use.

Best of happiness in your new Mac!

Are you using a one-button mouse, or no mouse whatsoever? OS X is pretty right-click friendly out of the box.

No mouse. Laptop.

Occasionally I plug in a two-button mouse, but that's limited to fairly specific occasions when I'm actually mousing around. Most of the time I am either scrolling or keyboarding.

Two fingers on the mousepad+click make right clicking pretty easy. Alternately, you can make clicking on the bottom right of the trackpad into a right click. The trackpad prefpane gives you a pretty good array of options to customize its behavior.

Yes I've discovered two fingers=right-click so now it's not so bad although I really miss middle clicking links to open them in a new tab instead of command+T or right-click (Apple Magic Mouse) then select open in a new tab.

It's like I tell people new to Linux that it's not Windows don't expect it to be like that so I should be telling myself Apple isn't like Linux even though they appear similar.

The applications seem to be made with single clicking in mind which would make sense considering Apple's fondness for single button mouses/mice and trackpads.

Overall the experience so far has been enjoyable, it's nice to learn new things.

Apple's mice have had right-click for a good number of years.

"I really miss middle clicking links to open them in a new tab"

Hold down CMD while clicking (or the Apple Key as its popularly known).

Sweet!

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/16425/startupsound.prefpane

Yeah I saw that pretty much the first thing that pops up on Google so it must be an issue with a lot of Mac/Apple owners.

Apple seems to claim they're very customer oriented I wonder why they don't address this issue and make it something the user can easily change without downloading some third party beta app just to kill the start-up sound.

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