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It's not that hard to switch, especially for a developer that lives in the software. It might take a few days, but if your brain is still fairly plastic, you will adapt.

If you are like my parents that can't get on the internet if the browser icon disappears from their desktop, then there might be a problem.

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Something I've realized is a lot of our habits transfer over from app to app. Most authors of new software make sure to follow the standard OS text editing conventions, and windows, linux & macos are all fairly similar.

When you use emacs or vim, which import their 1970s / early 1980s OS conventions with their keyboard shortcuts, you realize you can be dropped into a very foreign 'defaults' context, and they can conflict.

I must be like your parents. My brain feels hard wired to Emacs.

Just out of curiosity, are you okay with that?

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