Overall, though, Windows is garbage for developers (yes, yes, if you're using Microsoft technologies or oblivious to what happens outside of your IDE you will probably be happy enough) - and I have tried WSL2, Cygwin, working from a VM (yuck), and many other similar options. It does certain small things right, like Win-Shift-S copying to clipboard by default (you need to hold Ctrl while releasing the capture to get the same behaviour on macOS), and overall is much snappier due to macOS being a bloated mess. That being said, in terms of productivity, ergonomics, and things generally being well thought-out, Windows is nowhere near macOS. I have a significant insight into how they work and their shortcuts not only that, but I use Sublime Text and VSCode in both, and am familiar with the differences between macOS/Windows for those shortcuts. I work roughly 60/40 from my office (Windows workstation) and home (macOS laptop). Let’s not make the Mac worse just to make things consistent. No reaching for the “insert” key, which is a recipe for typos. Hands stay in center of keyboard where they belong.

Linux at least has the half-sane Control+Shift+C and Control+Shift+V but there’s multiple clipboards, and different applications may only use a subset of those. For some reason, Windows, which was supposed to have “right-click brings up a contextual menu everywhere” decides to make right-click do some weird almost X11-like copy-pasting in the terminal. Shift+Insert, Control+Shift+V, right-click, middle-click… what a goddamn mess. Linux and Windows both have really fucked up copy/paste. The Mac is the only one with a usable, consistent terminal. I switch between Mac, Linux, and Windows. As the one oddball computer manufacturer that uses their own layout, perhaps it's time for Apple to offer PC keyboard layouts as an option on their machines out of consideration for people who have to use multiple platforms. The PC and Linux worlds are not going to adopt Mac keyboard layouts.

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