One reason I’ve developed such a dependency on mousing and not short cuts. Now it’s just windows and macos but before it was windows, macos, unity, and gnome 3. Using the mouse is sane. 2-4 sets of shortcuts is not.
To use a shortcut, I need to know :
1) What keyboard layout am I using?
2) Am I using a Kinesis or standard keyboard?
3) What OS am I using?
4) What app I'm using?
Don't do it, kids. Now I'm so invested in Dvorak that I can't go back. It's an irreversible change.
It's suprising, but muscle memory somehow makes all of this work (most of the time). Sometimes I screw up horribly.
Using soley gnome3, I feel like I was able to reach peak productivity. I was able to easily switch between tasks by allowing them all to be fullscreen, and just scrolling through the desktops with barely moving my thumbs. Great emacs keybinding support. Especially in emacs.
I've been fighting tooth and nail with macos, because they use both option & command with their keybindings. There's no winning no matter how I rebind.
Windows I mostly don't try. jetbrains has a good enough emacs keybinding that doesn't seem to get clobbered by the OS.