On 05/03/2012 18:21, Tim Streater wrote:

Ctrl-Alt-Del on a PC with Windows is a short cut for starting task
manager, locking, logging out or rebooting the machine.

Not here. And you've forgotten Start.

That's your Apple menu. Apple logo top left of your screen (sensible
place). And then there's the dock....


I'm sure you have other equivalent basic key command combinations that
a Mac user is expected to know, to get on with things. And a funky out
of the box introduction video for users to watch to learn these things.

That may be but you're just confirming what I said, that these other
things are OS-specific.


Forget the specifics, the underlying is the same. There are buttons that
do this, there are mouse movements that do that. There are controls in a
car that once someone has learn't driving can adjust to using be it a
BMW or a Trabant.

For someone who is just introduced to computers and needs to start work
with an appplication, the rudiments of working with an operating system
is the first hurdle to overcome. There will need to be initial specific
training to suit a particular computer system, granted, but Mac's aren't
so different once ye have picked up on using one of the others.

Now explain to someone how to click, drag and release. OS specific?


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Adrian C