Microsoft's clumsy extension of IBM's short-sighted PC keyboard (and CUA) has a lot to answer for. It's too bad they didn't do a better job of ripping off eithe

Microsoft's clumsy extension of IBM's short-sighted PC keyboard (and CUA) has a lot to answer for. It's too bad they didn't do a better job of ripping off either Apple keyboards or Unix workstation keyboards. I personally use AltGr (Mac Option) more than compose, since it's tractable to have almost the same layout on *nix and Mac. IIRC the default Mac layout has ≠ and ≤ ≥ in the obvious places, and they are just as easily touch-typed as shifted characters. Compose is nice (on xkb systems) in that it's very easy to add personal customization to ~/.XCompose for task-specific characters.