Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)

> Is it that hard to believe some people prefer this behaviour?

Not at all. But it's also really easy to see that giving someone used to one of those behaviours the opposite one - would make them unhappy.

I totally get why you would want these features. But why not just use Ubuntu if you want them?

No OS should try to emulate everything that other Operating Systems do well. You can‘t make a highly opinionated OS like macOS highly customizable without compromising the initial vision. The same is true the other way around.

MacOS allows for a surprising customizability through third-party apps and I personally think this is a great solution. It hides the complexity in a way that makes it invisible to users that would be confused by additional option and allows them to get customization as an app that is supported by a third-party dev.

I personally think Windows is what you get if you want to be macOS and Linux. I‘m financing my studies by supporting MS365 instances and I don‘t think it works all too well. While I like the new scripting capabilities, the UI definitely got more confusing since the Windows 7 days.

TLDR: I personally believe diversity is good for the OS market, not every OS has to accommodate every type of user.

If I wanted a duct-taped inconsistent UI, with advertising, "telemetry", forced updates when I am in the middle of something important, 30 min software installations and being the target of most existing malware on planet Earth and spending 10 min to copy a file, by all means I would use Windows.

With Windows, put simply, you don't own your computer.

I haven't used Windows in over a decade and cannot be happier about it.

Windows at this point is a games console for keyboard and mouse games. Nobody uses Windows for anything serious, except old ATMs running Windows 95 and airports that want to embarrass themselves with blue screens of death. Most of the stuff on Azure including Azure itself is Linux based.

Also, I hate Hungarian notation.

I just hate being told "no" by a piece of software that I paid for.

To remap keys, you may be able to use hidutil. For example, to remap the Application key to right-hand Command:

    hidutil property --set '{"UserKeyMapping":[{"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x700000065,"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x7000000e7}]}

See https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn2450...