What do you dislike about cmd placement?

I feel the opposite, the near-thumb position for the most used modifier is a godsend vs pinky strain.

Ctrl in caps lock is debatably better but that key is arguably better used for esc in vim setups (or the harder to setup “ctrl if held, esc if tapped”).

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phantasmish 2 days ago | parent [-]

cmd is brilliant. I have to shift my entire hand downward a little to hit ctr+c/ctrl-v, and make a pinkie-stretch that I can feel straining my hand. Cmd+c/v keeps three fingers on the home row, and involves just a slide-over of the thumb by maybe a centimeter. It's great.

caps-as-an-extra-ctrl helps with all of that, but leaves you with the problem of overlapping shortcuts in the terminal. Cmd also fixes that.

I hate how hard it is to get anything remotely like it working in Linux. All the solutions are partial and very janky.

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cosmic_cheese 2 days ago | parent [-]

It’s a sentiment I’ve expressed many times here on HN, but I’d love to see a DE and matching set of apps designed to embrace Mac-like UX, including meta-based key shortcuts. It being like that out of the box instead of requiring a patchwork of spotty config changes and hacks brings massive value.

	▲	kace91 a day ago \| parent [-]
		This is the closest thing I know, not ideal but decent: https://github.com/RedBearAK/Toshy