Yeah, I barely use OS X (all home computers are W7/8 and my Uni has a very limited number of macs,

in fact I only ever used them because of the novelty but when I found everything ten times harder to do because I couldn't use my shortcuts and the UI was totally different from what I was used to I avoided them)

but the first thing I did after realizing that OS X messes with scrolling was change it so it made sense. no googling was required, I just checked out the Sys Preferences like you suggest.