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> The consistency of macOS keyboard shortcuts is one of the main reasons I have huge problems switching to Linux or Windows. When I left Mac 8 years or so it w

> The consistency of macOS keyboard shortcuts is one of the main reasons I have huge problems switching to Linux or Windows. When I left Mac 8 years or so it was quite the opposite: - home and end depended on application, the only one that worked consistently was ctrl - e and ctrl - a but they didn't work with shift so select to end of line was hit and miss - one of the shortcuts that sometimes worked was cmd - left, unfortunately that was mapped to go-back-one-page in Safari. Kknd of annoying when you try to select a sentence in a form and end up losing all your carefully crafted edits. - fn button in the place where ctrl is supposed to be, but only on laptop and small keyboards, not on the full size one. Not remappable (I understand this is fixed now). I struggled with that machine for three years. After that I realized that Macs are perfect - for Mac people, not for Linux peasants like me.

fuzzybassoon 6y ago
FWIW, I've found cmd+left to be very consistent, the only app(s) that I can think of that it doesn't work in are terminal apps, where I use ctrl+a etc. And thankfully, the Safari bug/inconsistency has been fixed. In all the major browsers on macos now, CMD+left will behave like "beginning of line" when you're in a text box. I feel your struggle though, as someone who frequently has to / chooses to use Win/Linux, I don't think I'll ever end the fight against the shortcut patterns that have been ingrained in my hands.
ecf 6y ago
I’ve found Home/End to be so incredibly unreliable on Windows. Some applications take you to the top of the page with Home, some take you to the beginning of the line.
- eitland 6y ago
  Can't remember experiencing that in 25 years on Windows except when combined with ctrl. Are you sure you didn't hold ctrl down at the same time? Edit: anyone else has experienced this on Windows without combining with ctrl?
  - moojd 6y ago
    Just moved to a mac and I'm having the same experience you had. Never had issues with Windows or various Linux distros. Currently I have a pretty absurd Karabiner config to work around some of the issues but I still haven't ironed them all out. Home/End always worked for me on Windows and didn't work for me on mac until I did a ton of tweaking.
  - tikkabhuna 6y ago
    Same for me. Home start of line. Ctrl + Home is start of document. My Dell laptop has Fn keys on the left/right arrow that do home/end in the same way it sounds like Macs do.

fuzzybassoon 6y ago

FWIW, I've found cmd+left to be very consistent, the only app(s) that I can think of that it doesn't work in are terminal apps, where I use ctrl+a etc. And thankfully, the Safari bug/inconsistency has been fixed. In all the major browsers on macos now, CMD+left will behave like "beginning of line" when you're in a text box. I feel your struggle though, as someone who frequently has to / chooses to use Win/Linux, I don't think I'll ever end the fight against the shortcut patterns that have been ingrained in my hands.

ecf 6y ago

I’ve found Home/End to be so incredibly unreliable on Windows. Some applications take you to the top of the page with Home, some take you to the beginning of the line.

eitland 6y ago
Can't remember experiencing that in 25 years on Windows except when combined with ctrl. Are you sure you didn't hold ctrl down at the same time? Edit: anyone else has experienced this on Windows without combining with ctrl?
- moojd 6y ago
  Just moved to a mac and I'm having the same experience you had. Never had issues with Windows or various Linux distros. Currently I have a pretty absurd Karabiner config to work around some of the issues but I still haven't ironed them all out. Home/End always worked for me on Windows and didn't work for me on mac until I did a ton of tweaking.
- tikkabhuna 6y ago
  Same for me. Home start of line. Ctrl + Home is start of document. My Dell laptop has Fn keys on the left/right arrow that do home/end in the same way it sounds like Macs do.