You should watch go through the tuts upon starting the software. It has a page dedicated to your exact complaint :D Sometimes you gotta suck it up and read the app tuts quickly to figure some basic stuff out. You can also change the navigation keys to match Maya/3DsMax.
I like to try new software in order to find an ideal tool or at least steal new workflow concepts and adapt them to 3dsmax which i use as my main app. I really try to stay openminded while evaluating something new. But still i can't find something to substitute max. Modo is the closest thing. Workplane is awesome. But,…