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Re:Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003) by PhasmaFelis on Saturday October 26, 2019 @01:04AM (#21361836)
After 15 years on OS X, I won't be buying another Mac. The MB keyboards with no Escape key and constant breakage, and dropping support for 32-bit apps, would have been enough for me. The newly onerous restrictions on software signing, and Apple's general obsession with sacrificing anything and everything to get thinner and lighter, only make it worse.
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Re:Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003) by llarsson on Saturday October 26, 2019 @01:51AM (#21361969)
Work gave me an MBP. I am a vim user, so I need my Escape key.

Mapping Caps Lock to Escape is easy to do now, even through the Settings GUI.

I am not trying to convince you to stay with Mac, I am just saying that this particular thing helped me immensely.

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Re:Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003) by jcranberry on Monday October 28, 2019 @10:31AM (#21377322)
It always surprises me when people remap the caps lock key. I find that I use it quite often.

For vim you case use 'C-[' I believe which does the same thing as escape.

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