I don’t get the fascination with macOS keyboard shortcuts, people always mention the copy thing that you did and it doesn’t seem like that big of a deal.
- Super key isn't wasted on window management (a thing you basically are doing a handful of time per sessions). A nicely-placed key is used for things that you do a lot!
- No "oh wow the start menu showed up randomly" BS when you fat finger.
- Control commands "just work" everywhere! Terminal usage is of course easy, but ctrl-a/ctrl-e also work for cursor movement. You get great text maninpulation! Seriously, being able to move the cursor around in any text field is a game changer.
- Isolation of most system-level operations to that key mean that you are unlikely to hit weird conflicts. And if you fat-finger you can Super-Z out of your issue most of the time.
The terminal thing is, in the grand scheme of things, minor, but a very nice QoL. It's annoying to mode shift from ctrl as a desktop environment modifier to ctrl as a unix modifier. Especially when ctrl+c can be quite a bit more destructive than "copy".
It's not like it's impossible to adjust, but it's very nice to have command+c do the same thing, everywhere.
Yeah, I would sum it up as reducing the number of discrete shortcut sets to remember to the bare minimum, instead lumping as much as possible into the global set.
Presumably, “prescribed”; “proscribed” is essentially the opposite.
This is the difference between a command based shortcuts and ctrl based shortcuts (unless you are using a non-standard ctrl key).
There is a reason why people get "emacs pinky" but no-one gets "mac thumb".