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First ever mac. Help me out.

First ever mac. Help me out.
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Specs: m5 14 inch 24gb 1tb SSD.

It's my first ever Macbook but not the first apple device. I already have an ipad air m3 i bought last year.

I've always been a windows/linux guy. I've been rawdogging a 4gb 1tb hdd hp laptop for the past 7 years. It got to a point where it couldn't even run windows 10. So I had to switch to linux mint.

MacOs is a whole different territory. The learning curve is very high imo. I'm pretty used to windows keyboard shortcuts as they carry over to linux too. But the new option, command etc etc keys are alien territory for me. There is no direct shortcut to open terminal. I have to use cmnd space to open spotlight then search for it. I'm a student but also a developer so i mostly work with terminals and stuff like that.

Can y'all suggest me some tutorials, settings and apps which could be of some use to me. Any knowledge about the mac would be appreciated.

💬 Reddit thread https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/1usw9k7/first_ever_mac_help_me_out/
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