I still felt sluggish doing my day-to-day work. The inconsistency across apps breaks “the flow”, and me still using my Mac Pro for personal use didn’t help.Īfter a couple of months, I had gotten used to the native shortcuts, but I was still not comfortable. You know, I do like Windows 10 and the platform has become neat for development with WSL, Windows Terminal, and VSCode, but I just could not get used to the keyboard shortcuts. To start addressing this, I set up an old Dell Optiplex 9020 as my desktop (which still works surprisingly well after a recent RAM upgrade), opted it into the corporate network, and I was full-time on Windows for work purposes. Clearing the productivity barrier was nice, but the situation had to change: the security software forced onto my Mac made it crawl I still had to use Windows on a remote VM and on the laptop and, well, I wasn’t fulfilling my plan of learning Windows. At that time, I enrolled my personal Mac Pro into the corporate network and did most of my day-to-day work from it. Getting used to a new company, a new team, a new product, a new set of technologies… all from an OS I wasn’t fluent in was just too much. Upon joining the company, I tried to do all of my work from the Surface Laptop 3 that I was given, and… well, that was quite painful.

Part of the reason behind me joining Microsoft last October was to familiarize myself with Windows, as was purchasing a Surface Go 2 last summer. While I continue to prefer macOS as a desktop environment, I’m slightly concerned about the direction Apple is taking with the platform and I don’t like the thought of being locked in. Up until last summer, I had been a macOS-only desktop user for about 15 years with the occasional peek at Windows 10 on an old PC. If so, this post will equip you with an AutoHotkey configuration file that brings macOS keyboard shortcuts to Windows. Are you a macOS user occasionally dealing with Windows systems or trying to switch platforms? Are you a Windows user that believes that the Windows-native keyboard shortcuts are objectively bad? Are you annoyed by something as simple as copy/pasting text not working consistently across apps?

Autohotkey on mac