Mac for a hard core Linux user
 

So... I've just been given the 27" iMac I asked for 4 years ago here at work. All of my other systems are Linux on PC hardware (well, one Linux on a old G3 iMac)

Just got a fresh install of Yosemite done, doing updates now, then installing stuff - really just need Chrome, a good text editor (sublime?) a SFTP client (FileZilla?), and the OS X dev tools.

Any words of wisdom? No, not switching permanently but wanted to get some experience with OS X ...

Of course, I hate the wireless keyboard and mouse that came with it, so I've got a PC keyboard and proper multibutton mouse plugged in... can I/should I map that useless Windows key to be the Mac "command" key?

Stock TextEdit app is fine for most things.

My go to power editor was BBedit (Free version is called Text Wrangler and it's perfect for almost anything.)

Bare Bones Software | TextWrangler

Lately I've taken a real liking to Brackets.

Brackets - A modern, open source code editor that understands web design.

For a terminal I use iTerm

https://www.iterm2.com/

Filezilla is great for open source FTP but don't discount Cyberduck.

https://cyberduck.io/?l=en


And yes, remap the key.