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The windows key is used extensively for system-level shortcuts, while ctrl is for application level shortcuts.

• bitwize 4y ago
  That's BS. Control key is for sending control codes. Command key is for issuing commands. We're still dealing with the legacy of Windows 3.x using Ctrl where Apple realized that a special modifier key was needed from the beginning. God, the non-Apple ecosystem is primitive and user-hostile.
  • vkou 4y ago
    > Control key is for sending control codes. > God, the non-Apple ecosystem is primitive and user-hostile. Exactly which Windows users do you think... Send control codes on a regular basis? 'User-hostile' is exactly how I would describe being more concerned about conceptual and behavioural purity for a domain that ~none of the users have cared about for more than 2 decades. (It's also pretty weird to champion Apple, here, when it's taken them how many years to figure out that maybe having a mouse with more than one button is desirable... And I also wonder how people with, say, only one functioning hand were expected to control-click in MacOS. Didn't see a lot of them in Apple commercials, though, perhaps they weren't the target audience...)
    • callalex 4y ago
      Attacking Apple on computing accessibility is, to put it nicely, misguided.
      • vkou 4y ago
        I think it's perfectly appropriate to attack them over a misguided, and even at the time, utterly baffling preference for aesthetics over usability.
  • vel0city 4y ago
    Wouldn't changing something that users were used to for what, >40 years, be the truly user-hostile thing to do? Hey, you've done Ctrl+C/V for your whole life, lets change it just because we call it a control key instead of a command key. What's the real user hostile thing to do today?