--- title: MacOS for PC users | daily.dev description: MacOS is not friendly to mouse users (except for Apple’s Magic Mouse) I don’t like the MacOS top menu because it forces apps to break Fitts’S Law, which... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/macos-for-pc-users-fkjwqt1jt twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: MacOS for PC users | daily.dev og:description: MacOS is not friendly to mouse users (except for Apple’s Magic Mouse) I don’t like the MacOS top menu because it forces apps to break Fitts’S Law, which... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/macos-for-pc-users-fkjwqt1jt og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/fKJwqT1jt.png og:image:alt: MacOS for PC users og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # MacOS for PC users **[RUBYLAND](https://daily.dev/sources/rubyla)** · 4 min read · 14 upvotes · 3 comments ## Summary MacOS is not friendly to mouse users (except for Apple’s Magic Mouse) I don’t like the MacOS top menu because it forces apps to break Fitts’S Law, which suggests that important UI elements should be hard to miss with the mouse. To enable Windows-style keyboard shortcuts, I did the following. Added this script to Zsh config to enable familiar text-editing shortcuts in the terminal. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@fba** · 0 upvotes > I liked the ZSH part 😀 **@farzadmf** · 0 upvotes > Very nice article, I share the same pain (although I must say I've tweaked things a lot more), but really liked the conclusion part **@friendbear** · 0 upvotes > AltTab application useful. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#apple](https://daily.dev/tags/apple) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/macos-for-pc-users-fkjwqt1jt) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"MacOS for PC users","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/macos-for-pc-users-fkjwqt1jt","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/macos-for-pc-users-fkjwqt1jt"},"datePublished":"2022-05-11T15:31:22.334Z","dateModified":"2022-05-11T15:31:22.341Z","description":"MacOS is not friendly to mouse users (except for Apple’s Magic Mouse) I don’t like the MacOS top menu because it forces apps to break Fitts’S Law, which...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/0efee731793d64e132e3107cd48ebef3","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/0efee731793d64e132e3107cd48ebef3","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"RUBYLAND","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"RUBYLAND","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/rubyla","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/rubyla"},"commentCount":3,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/macos-for-pc-users-fkjwqt1jt","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":14},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}],"keywords":"apple","timeRequired":"PT4M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"RUBYLAND","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/rubyla"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"MacOS for PC users"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/macos-for-pc-users-fkjwqt1jt","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"I liked the ZSH part 😀","datePublished":"2022-05-17T19:18:01.847Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/fKJwqT1jt#c-VYOMagJO4","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Md. 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