{"id":5323,"date":"2014-04-23T12:17:37","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T11:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=5323"},"modified":"2014-04-23T16:19:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T15:19:56","slug":"advice-for-windowslinux-users-whove-migrated-to-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=5323","title":{"rendered":"Advice for Windows\/Linux users who\u2019ve migrated to Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the 23rd January 2014, exactly one day before the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/30-years\/\">30th anniversary of the Apple Mac<\/a>, I took delivery of my first ever Apple computer &#8211; a late 2013 model MacBook Air. I still heavily use Windows and Linux machines at home and at work but the laptop I cart around with me is now a Mac and I like it a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Until I bought the MacBook Air, I hadn&#8217;t used Macs very much and I quickly realised I had a lot to learn. As I figured things out, I kept notes and I&#8217;ve turned these notes into a .pdf document that may be of use to others. The document covers<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">General Mac stuff &#8211; Some answers to various questions I had.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Linux-centric tips &#8211; Things I am used to on Linux, and how to do them on OS X.<\/li>\n<li>Windows-centric tips &#8211; Things I am used to on Windows, and how to do them on OS X.<\/li>\n<li>Software &#8211; How-tos &#8211; General software-related questions I had.<\/li>\n<li>Software -Listed by task &#8211; The software I like to use.<\/li>\n<li>Mac OS X Environmental changes &#8211; Some changes I made to OS X<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/docs\/MacTips_wr.pdf\">Advice for Windows\/Linux users who\u2019ve migrated to Mac<\/a>\u00a0(from a recent migrant to OS X 10.9)<\/strong> &#8211; 23rd April 2014<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I intend to keep this updated as I learn more and feedback is welcomed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?page_id=2055\">via the usual channels<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 23rd January 2014, exactly one day before the 30th anniversary of the Apple Mac, I took delivery of my first ever Apple computer &#8211; a late 2013 model MacBook Air. I still heavily use Windows and Linux machines at home and at work but the laptop I cart around with me is now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-1nR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5323"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5432,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323\/revisions\/5432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}