Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs

I just wish Apple would get back to making decent electromechanical keyboards.

Asahi and GNOME teams, please take this as an guide to implement ”Mac input compatibility mode”!Dual booting between a MacOS and Linux is a painful process of manual keyboard and shorcut overrides to get the linux side somewhat to the (better) mac way of doing this.

Mac got the Command key right. Windows got the Home and End keys right. Wish we could have both on one system.

> A small group of vocal users love these.That's me! readline everywhere by default is fantastic and should be immediately copied by every Linux DE!

The demo keyboards in the article, I'm pretty sure are wrong.The "Start" or Windows key is the same as the "Command" key"Alt" is the same key as "Option"This is how every keyboard I've ever used has worked. This is usually how they work when you plug a PC keyboard into a Mac or vice-versa. reply: That's how it is by default but doesn't approximately everyone, when they first plug a non-Mac external keyboard into their Mac, immediately go to System Settings -> Keyboard -> Modifier keys and switch Command with Option?Otherwise it would be really confusing when you switch from your external keyboard to the laptop keyboard.

I recently got a Linux desktop after being Mac-only for a long time and using Linux only as a deploy target, and holy shit: the modifier key situation on PCs is so bad.Control specifically is just a terrible modifier key for common things like edit commands. First, it sits near your pinky instead of your thumb, making chording it with Z, X, C, V, etc., really difficult.But then... who decided that ctrl-c should be used for both copy and abort??? That's diabolical levels of messed up. In a terminal app ctrl-c aborts, so you need to use shift-ctrl-c to copy, and now you have two shortcuts for the same operation you need to remember based on context, except that in a web-based terminal in Chrome shift-ctrl-c opens "Inspect Element Mode" and now you have no way to copy!Am I the only one who finds this astoundingly frustrating? reply: Nope, it is a crying shame the early Linux/Unix desktop environments copied the Windows/IBM CUA shortcuts and now we have to fight every app and every different method there is for setting keyboard shortcuts to fix it. The Ctrl key was already claimed for use in the terminal for signals and line navigation.Toshy can help but it's still not a perfect fix.

mac treats modifier keys like modifier keys whereas windows treat super key as modifier key and start menu key (which is weird)