New to OS X - questions

I got myself a MacBook Air yesterday after long time of wondering if I should. First impression - I'm quite happy for this sturdy little machine with great battery life. I have OS X 10.9.2 with the latest updates.
It will take me a while to get used to the touchpad as I have always preferred laptops with trackpoint.
So, few question.. and more to come, I hope you can help me with these. Some question might be very simple and some come from Linux/Unix background. I'd like to modify the system so that it will bring the best for me from both worlds.
1) How to 'middle click' on chromium using only touchpad? I want to open links to a new background tab. This feature seems to work with combination of 'command' key and click, but I have not yet figured out how to do with single click. If I use two finger click, I get the 'right click' with various options. Yet this is not what I want.
2) How does the copy&paste actually work? How to 'paint' the selection?
3) I'm currently using the mail client which came with the system. I think it's still processing some of the mails from gmail. How can I get new email information to the right notification panel (which opens with two finger swipe from the right of touchpad).
4) NFS mounts? Does OSX support NFS anymore and is it better to stick with Samba when accessing files on NAS?
I'd like to setup sticky mountpoints /data/pics for example so that I can do my own backups from the laptop to the NAS as well as access those files from the same directories from various machines.
Now my NAS is Samba mounted on /Volumes/Volume_1 will this name be used forever? In that case I could just create an symbolic link with ln -s /Volumes/Volume_1/data/pics /data/pics for example.
5) apt-get type of functionality to install opensource software?
I noted that there is xports http://www.macports.org/install.php which seems to have quite a lot of applications available and installable from the shell. Is this the preferred way to install optional software or is there better ones?
6) While installing some software I got these weird volumes? What are these? Can I remove these after the installation process or are these still used for something?
/dev/disk1s2 72Mi 72Mi 0Bi 100% 36757 0 100% /Volumes/Install Google Drive
/dev/disk2s2 130Mi 117Mi 13Mi 90% 29949 3349 90% /Volumes/vlc-2.1.4
7) Does timemachine backup all the system settings as well? Can it be used to do the backup for a) local disk external disk c) to NAS?
Quite a few question, but it would be very helpful if you could find the time to answer these. When I get more used to the system, I try to return the favours
Thanks!

2. For text, it works just like Windows (Cmd+C, Cmd+X, Cmd+V). For files, OS X doesn't "Cut". You have to drag files locally to "move" them. And to external drives or flash drives, there is only "copy". You can't "move" files. Within the drive, you can move them, however.
3. I've always used Thunderbird for my mail. I have Apple Mail set up with my seven domain and Gmail accounts, but I rarely use it.
6. That looks like mounted DMGs for the installers. You unmount them by ejecting them from the desktop. Most COCOA installers will examine them to determine if they're eligible for installation, but they always show up as a volume you can't use.
7. Time Machine backs up system files. It enables users to restore from a TM backup. I've only ever done that once, back in 2010, but I was able to FULLY restore my MacBook Pro (OS10.6) in about 40 minutes.

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A
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FirFytr wrote:
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djjuice wrote:
I have a new T530 and just have a few questions..
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Z.
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Not too good in using itunes. My wife has an iphone and my limit to itunes is putting some songs on my ipod.
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