Switching to Mac from Windows should have been a joy – and if I used the standard US keyboard layout it probably would have been less of a nightmare. In that case, I only would have had to re-learn about 20 shortcuts to be effective again.
Unfortunately, I’m using the Hungarian layout and as it turns out it is completely different from what I got used to with Windows and Linux. For some reason, all the symbols are on different keys and I needed to compile a cheat sheet just to be able to edit a simple HTML file.
Symbols
| Character | Key combination |
| | | Alt + í |
| \ | Alt + ü |
| # | Alt + Shift + 3 |
| $ | Alt + Shift + 4 |
| @ | Alt + q |
| € | Ctrl + Alt + e |
| © | Alt + g |
| & | Alt + 1 |
| ; | Alt + . |
| * | Alt + Shift + , |
| < | Alt + Shift + y |
| > | Alt + Shift + x |
| [ | Alt + 8 |
| ] | Alt + 9 |
| { | Alt + 7 |
| } | Alt + ö |
Thankfully you are not forced to learn all these if you don’t want to. You can also use a more standard Hungarian layout with a little bit of tinkering, which is very useful if you are using multiple OSes daily like I do.
