Tips for making long time macOS users feel more at home on Raspbian

[TD540]

Perhaps a silly question, but Is there a way I can make long time mac users feel more at home on a raspberry pi?

Simple example would be the command+C and command+V keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste. Command+T for opening new browser tab, or a file explorer- or terminal tab.

[kerry_s]

yeap, you can do that. if you install "plank" you can even have a bottom dock.

1. google "openbox keyboard shortcuts"
2. "sudo apt install plank" gets you the dock.
3. rearrange the top panel?

sorry, i use the gnome desktop on my install, so i can't do exact instructions. but the info is out there.

[scruss]

⌘ on Apple is Ctrl on Raspbian, mostly. Sometimes the terminal needs Shift+Ctrl+{X,C,V} to work. Not everything has copy and paste.

If you enable a Compose key, you get better multilingual character input than Mac OS has every had: Compose + ^ + e → ê.

[W. H. Heydt]

Perhaps a silly question, but Is there a way I can make long time mac users feel more at home on a raspberry pi?

Just tell them that the underlying OSes (bsd unix on the Mac and Linux of the Pi) are both POSIX compliant and learn to love it. At least on the Pi, nothing gets in the way of actually using OS features.

[kerry_s]

the look is easy enough.
just copy "/etc/xdg/openbox/lxde-pi-rc.xml" to "home/pi/.config/openbox/lxde-pi-rc.xml"

in that file, you can move the buttons to the left & add/change your keyboard shortcuts.

just took me a few minutes.