The cmd version with the modifier directly next to the spacebar involves no wrist rotation at all. I tried it to check before making my last post, and my hand f

The cmd version with the modifier directly next to the spacebar involves no wrist rotation at all. I tried it to check before making my last post, and my hand feels way more tense doing ctrl+z/x/c than cmd+z/x/c, using a desktop PC keyboard for the former to make it fair. I can also move back into homerow position faster. If you’ve got super directly next to the spacebar, it’s both faster and causes less strain, as far as I can tell. Granted it’s a roughly neutral or very slightly worse change if super is between alt and ctrl. Again, I did the standard Linux/windows thing for like 15 years before switching to Mac, so I don’t think I prefer it just due to familiarity. [edit] the key to their layout being so good for writing is how Option/Alt is used. Option plus a character will often get you a common modified version of that character that’s very useful (so you can type, say, façade, or a —, quickly and easily). Holding option changes practically every key on the keyboard, and shift+option does it again to a different set of chars. They’re not perfectly discoverable and some are compose keys (but visible on the screen, not hidden as a key that seems to do nothing!), but if you forget where the cent sign or euro or or pound are it’s easy to remember they’re in the numbers somewhere near dollar and find them again in a second or two. [edit edit] the international layout can be better for some people but is basically obsoleted by Mac’s “hold a key and see accented versions to choose from” functionality, and alt-gr is similar to what Mac’s standard English layout does, except worse.