If you are like me and Tyler (I borrowed his tip), you find it incredibly annoying and not helpful when you try to open a file and it cleverly opens it in other OS.
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I borrowed this from Tyler! I had a whole heap of virtual machines which I had to shut down. One extra little useful tip is that the <escape> key can be used to close all the configuration dialogs. A lot of effort but all these little things add up to a frictionless time on your computer.