For my current job I have to work with an Apple MacBook. The first thing I notice is the high reliance on the mouse. Which is quite slow/painful for me, knowing I need to be careful not to get more pain in my wrist/thumb (and yes even with vertical mice).

In the past I learned really to use keyboard navigation where I can. However in Apple this seems to be absent? I thought Apple prides itself on a good UI, so this feels a bit out of place?

Things that I sorely miss are

• option to get focus on the Launcher, and then able to use arrow keys + enter to open an application.
• ctrl+L to open path in Finder, to be able to quickly change location
• ability to cycle through press-able buttons (especially in Finder, "go up a level", "open item", "open context menu for item") with tab.
• Ability to open a terminal directly in Finder, and keep it integrated (i.e. quickly cd changes Finder as well, and changes in Finder change Terminal's current directory).
• ctrl + delete/backspace/arrow to handle whole words/to next whitespace

I know I can do anything in Terminal, but that's just not that user friendly....