Agreed yes, and you could use CUA keybindings and be comfortable everywhere, working cross-desktop, cross-terminal, cross-platform. Only a minor variant on the Mac with Cmd instead of Ctrl. Some good options:

- Geany

- Sublime Text

- VS Code

- Notepad++

- micro

- ne

On top of these I usually memorize Ctrl-A and Ctrl-E for the command-line, and "i… :wq" for vim, although haven't needed the latter in a decade.