Quote - How is it better, ice-boy? I am having issues with hotkeys all being different in 2.5x. The whole point to Blender - what made Blender so fast - was the hotkeys, and now I have to relearn all that? Makes absolutely no sense for them to do that.

Funny, I thought the point of blender was that it is free and open.

I just assumed being hotkey dependent was a symptom of blender's "linux" mentality.  It's the only thing that ever kept me from learning it.  Shortcuts are nice, but if I'm eating or on the phone I'd like to be able to access every thing by mouse as well.  It also makes most blender tutorials look like magic as you can't see the the keyboard gymnastics everything actually takes to accomplish.