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>- There's no way to create an empty file

Create it for what? To use to launch the app that handles it? Just open the respective app and save an empty or unedited file.

>- There's no easy way to cut a file/folder (Cmd-x doesn't work)

Copy as regularly (Cmd-C), and use Option-Cmd-V to move the file where you want to.

>- There's no (?) way to keep everything consistently sorted and aligned

Not sure what you mean.

>- Tags are useless and just take up space for nothing

They're useful if you use them. Many people do use them. What exactly would you do with that "space" anyway? It's not like they take space in your apartment. It's a UI element which you can use or not use.

>- No "parent folder"...

Cmd+up arrow or Go -> Enclosing Folder.

Looks like all of the complains are basically "they're not where they was on Windows".

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You successfully managed to confirm all of the parent's complaints by showing that they aren't achievable in Finder, or don't follow a consistent convention and have to be done some other way.

What's wrong with command-up to go to the enclosing folder? As the poster stated, you don't even need to use the keyboard shortcut, there's a menu item.

If I'm in a GUI app, I'm navigating with the mouse. Having to take my hand off the mouse to type Cmd+Up is not good UX for such a common command as "cd ..".

For GUI you right click on the folder name and go to parent or you double click on the parent folder name in the path at the bottom of the window.

I already gave one method to do it with the mouse (Go -> Enclosing folder). There are several other ways to navigate to the parent.

It might "confirm" the complaints but it also invalidates them. Fighting against the way something works isn't particularly valid, and is often ignorance (in the "don't know" way, not the obnoxious way). The guy helped with some knowledge.

This goes both ways. There have been whiny posts by Mac users who go to Windows (or from iOS to Android) and then gripe and complain about everything that isn't what they're accustomed to. It's just as silly.

All of those are achievable in Finder, the shortcuts I gave work precisely in Finder, and are also available as toolbar buttons and/or menu options.

>or don't follow a consistent convention and have to be done some other way.

The follow macOS conventions, not Windows conventions.

So basically "you're holding it wrong".

Or rtfm.

So basically "if you're expecting Windows conventions, you came to the wrong place".

> Looks like all of the complains are basically "they're not where they was on Windows".

Well... yeah kinda but not only. Windows does some things better, and it seems like a good idea to copy good UX paradigms wherever they come from. Also for some of these your answere is "why do you want to do this?" or "use some obscure keyboard magic". I want to because I want to. Sometimes I'm in a folder and want to create a specific file because it fits my current workflow. I don't always do it, but sometimes I need to.

>Copy as regularly (Cmd-C), and use Option-Cmd-V to move the file where you want to.

I don't care, why is it not Cmd-X? Why do they break the universal standard with this?

>I don't care, why is it not Cmd-X? Why do they break the universal standard with this?

Because there's no "universal standard". There's mac (which did UI/folders/etc before Windows), Windows, and there's X and modern Linux desktops which came late to the game and (especially traditional X) didn't have any consistent way to do this (or even oferred it).

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