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I’ve found Home/End to be so incredibly unreliable on Windows.

Some applications take you to the top of the page with Home, some take you to the beginning of the line.

Can't remember experiencing that in 25 years on Windows except when combined with ctrl.

Are you sure you didn't hold ctrl down at the same time?

Edit: anyone else has experienced this on Windows without combining with ctrl?

Just moved to a mac and I'm having the same experience you had. Never had issues with Windows or various Linux distros. Currently I have a pretty absurd Karabiner config to work around some of the issues but I still haven't ironed them all out.

Home/End always worked for me on Windows and didn't work for me on mac until I did a ton of tweaking.

Same for me. Home start of line. Ctrl + Home is start of document.

My Dell laptop has Fn keys on the left/right arrow that do home/end in the same way it sounds like Macs do.

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