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Though I indeed experience this in Windows, in macOS I feel the same about buttons, especially when you mix in an external keyboard (I have a Logitech MX keys). It's always a mistery when and how home/end work (does nothing in terminal, it's page down/up in some apps, in Word it's like Windows), when cmd-arrows do home/end (not in terminal [annoying that ctrl-a/e are the only ways!], does work in FireFox), what button gives me ~ (shown on 2 buttons on the MX keys) and when I can paste with crtl-v (ok, yeah I shouldn't but if you switch OS a lot... strangely it sometimes works).

Oh and three finger down-swipe is undo on iOS! Very handy! Just not always, more like sometimes.




MS office is the only time I’m frustrated by keys being different. Otherwise control/alt/fn + arrows is a pleasure to use for text navigation.

For terminal its pretty easy to remap keys, in iterm at least as far as I remember.[1] I stopped doing this because it was annoying when switching between MacOS and Linux.

[1]https://emilyemorehouse.com/blog/001-iterm-keybindings/




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