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No OP, but UK keyboard layout on Apple devices sucks, seperately from overriding decades of muscle memory reaching for cmd instead of ctrl. Could never get used to UI/workflow. No native window snapping (back in the day at least). Workarounds required for a lot of my tooling, no native containers, until recently no native VM solution (believe UTM solves this). Brew.

As a disclaimer I do think Linux with Gnome provides the absolute best developer experience so you can take all my opinions with that in hand.

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> No OP, but UK keyboard layout on Apple devices sucks, seperately from overriding decades of muscle memory reaching for cmd instead of ctrl.

Is cmd somewhere else on UK Apple keyboards, than on US ones?

If it's like the US ones, I spent my first 25ish computing years on Windows and Linux (and Sun, et c.—point is, not Mac) but after getting used to Mac's shortcuts, I gotta hand it to them: what they've done is more correct than what everyone else is doing. Ctrl-shortcuts involve more stretching and wrist movement, so, are slower and push one closer to RSI, and putting more common shortcuts on cmd than ctrl leads to fewer collisions (no awkwardness in the terminal, for example).

It's why I rebind ctrl to caps lock on all my devices.

>overriding decades of muscle memory reaching for cmd instead of ctrl

You get used to this in three days.

Then you go back to your other devices and get it wrong there instead.

If that's the issue then configure your mac to switch command and control. It's somewhere in settings.

Then you do some simple remap on your other devices and live a consistently happy life after that

I don't get it, the button swap is trivial to configure, how can it be such an important criticism? (though the cmd key is more comfortably located, so it's better to do the swap on Windows)

I completely agree with you. As a developer working with containers; Linux is the only viable option.

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