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[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's not terrible once you learn the muscle memory.

I'm sure there's some obscure key bind to go directly there, but I just do Cmd+Shift+G in Finder to get to the browse to path dialog, type ~, and hit return.

Still a stupid extra amount of work, but at least it's not having to use my mouse, typing %USERPROFILE%, or having to type the absolute path. That would piss me off even more.

[–] 6xpipe_@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I’m sure there’s some obscure key bind to go directly there

It's just Cmd+Shift+H (for Home). The shortcuts for many of the most common locations are extremely intuitive.

  • Cmd+Shift+A (Applications)
  • Cmd+Shift+D (Desktop)
  • Cmd+Shift+L (~/Library)
  • Cmd+Shift+C (Computer)