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> Not just different, substantially better, in my opinion. The addition of the command key is a 2x+ increase in modifier-space (2C1 + 2C2 vs. 3C1 + 3C2 + 3C3).

> Not just different, substantially better, in my opinion. The addition of the command key is a 2x+ increase in modifier-space (2C1 + 2C2 vs. 3C1 + 3C2 + 3C3). Right, but MacOS doesn't live in a vacuum. It's like the whole XKCD about competing standards again: https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/. In my eyes it's not worth being different from everyone else simply because you think you are a tiny bit better. > Mac has Keyboard Maestro, AppleScript, and a terminal. MacOS does have a terminal but it doesn't feel like integration is as tight with it as on Linux. On Linux I can do crazy things with desktop programs through dbus and systemd is easier to use for me compared to launchd (although this is heavily debated). Admittingly the automation ecosystem on MacOS may be better than I'm aware as I didn't look very deep into it.

Klonoar 6y ago
Many of us consider it better, though, and don’t need to deal with other OS’s. Hence why the keys are that way. Why should macOS curtail to what the rest do?
sooheon 6y ago
Yeah, if you move around OSs I'm sure the nonconformity is annoying. I'm in the camp that HCI is better when it's personalized rather than globally standardized, so I heavily rebind and use non-standard keyboards anyways.
spacedcowboy 6y ago
It’s not a “tiny” bit better imho. It’s leaps and bounds. Cutting/pasting into a terminal is effortlessly the same as everything else, instead of some extra modifier to Ctrl-c that I always have to look up in the menu. And find awkward to do as well... I work pretty much constantly in the terminal on macOS ‘open <file>.pdf’, or .jpg or .png or .(whatever) then I ssh to a Linux box and want to run qtcreator on the .pro file and have to figure out what the damn app was called again... Etc. Just like your experience and disappointment with macOS, I expect mine (the opposite of yours) comes down to what I’m most familiar with...
- nsood 6y ago
  A bit late, but xdg-open might be the command you're looking for on Linux?

Klonoar 6y ago

Many of us consider it better, though, and don’t need to deal with other OS’s. Hence why the keys are that way. Why should macOS curtail to what the rest do?

sooheon 6y ago

Yeah, if you move around OSs I'm sure the nonconformity is annoying. I'm in the camp that HCI is better when it's personalized rather than globally standardized, so I heavily rebind and use non-standard keyboards anyways.

spacedcowboy 6y ago

It’s not a “tiny” bit better imho. It’s leaps and bounds. Cutting/pasting into a terminal is effortlessly the same as everything else, instead of some extra modifier to Ctrl-c that I always have to look up in the menu. And find awkward to do as well... I work pretty much constantly in the terminal on macOS ‘open <file>.pdf’, or .jpg or .png or .(whatever) then I ssh to a Linux box and want to run qtcreator on the .pro file and have to figure out what the damn app was called again... Etc. Just like your experience and disappointment with macOS, I expect mine (the opposite of yours) comes down to what I’m most familiar with...

nsood 6y ago
A bit late, but xdg-open might be the command you're looking for on Linux?