I installed OpenOffice and was sad to see that it is not a native app, but runs under X11. I wish they would release a natively compiled version of OpenOffice. Mail.app is cool and comparable to most email clients so far. I havent really tested it, or setup rules or anything yet. Will get to it soon enough.
Going to the end of a line, or the start of a line is a little different from other systems. You have to use command (the key with the apple on it) and right and left arrows. Option and right/left arrows work on some kind of Unit or something, but basically instead of moving a character at a time you move a word at a time. F9 is expose, F10 shows all applications windows open in an active application, and F11 clears the desktop so that you can access files on your desktop. I never liked having a cluttered desktop, but with the above keys, it is just not a problem anymore.
Since on Linux (my old primary OS) Windowmaker was my Window Manager of choice, and the interface in Mac OS X with its version of the dock makes me feel at home. The OS X dock is a lot better looking though! :)
Once you have fink installed, you have functionality similar to that provided by debians apt-get. Finding out if a package is available is as easy as
fink list package-name[172 09:41 AM Wed Feb 16] [Session: ttyp3 adnan]
==> fink list quanta
Information about 1736 packages read in 4 seconds.
quanta 3.1.4-21 KDE - HTML editor
Go get the X11 install from the Mac site, and you have all your X11 apps you need.
Once you have those installed if you want to run an X11 app in a window of its own, without having the whole Xwindows stuff just type
open-x11 app-nameSo for instance, if you want to run the usenet news reader pan, you would type
open-x11 panIf you want to run any other known filetype its
open filenameFor instance to open a txt file in textedit you would type
open filename.txt or to open a folder in a finder window
open foldername
