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My first guess would be that the majority of keyboards that exist in the world do not have a CMD key.

The command/⌘ key is just the logo/super/Windows key in a different spot.

The CMD key is much better utilized by MacOS than the windows/super key is by windows/linux. Most OS-level things are under command, and I'm free to use readline/emacs bindings in any text inputs across the whole OS and never have them conflict with global bindings.

Windows/linux still defaults to many OS commands being in the ctrl space (like ctrl-c for copy, not windows-c) which causes clobbering in the terminal, forcing people to use ctrl-shift-c, for instance.

tbf, windows key shortcuts are actually OS specific. Clipboarding/etc must be implemented by the app in question. i think a better example would be alt-keys (alt-tab/etc)

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