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arfro
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Using Mac at work and Ubuntu at home.

Every feckin weekend I spend 10min relearning keyboard shortcuts before I can get productive because all of a sudden cmd+c doesn't copy but instead deletes random shit.

The madness of life.

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  • 4
    @amatrelan or, you know, Mac could use the same layout/shortcuts as the other two. Most times it's just swapping the Ctrl and super keys, but it's not always that simple.
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    @amatrelan I know how easy it is (or not easy really) I use both Windows and Mac at the same time at work, and then I go home and use Debian. For the most part Debian, and Ubuntu iirc, use the same shortcuts and layout as Windows. Almost all the apps use the same shortcuts across both operating systems making it really easy to swap. Mac is the one who jacks it all up. Then Mac had to go and add additional buttons like eject which aren't mapped on my standard Windows keyboards.

    For a while, Super+c in windows brought up fucking Cortana asking me what I needed, they've changed that one since and now it doesn't do anything, but I wouldn't be hitting the wrong keys if Mac didn't have to be different.
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    @amatrelan but if OSX didn't change their layout and keybindings, then it wouldn't have to be "easier" to change the setup in the other systems, I agree that it should be easier because if it were then I'd be able to set me Mac shortcuts to match the other two OS's I use and be done with it.

    As far as keyboard layouts I'm with you 100% and wish more people realized it and would switch layouts. Dvorak is great but swapping back to qwerty every time you touch a computer that isn't yours makes it harder to make the switch.
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    Same here, man. Struggle is real.
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