> I believe that good design should be recognised for what it is, regardless of branding
I am not at all influenced by the brand.
Windows key was a mistake too IMO (that are two BTW! one emulates the right mouse click).
ALT+space was a perfectly fine combo to press with one thumb (especially on laptop keyboards) to open a menu or the app launcher.
They add nothing to the table, it's just another modifier, they are both seriously inferior to function keys, that Mac tried so hard to remove and failed, because a touchbar sucks compared to a physical key.
Just simple plain HMI since Engelbart proved what computers could do.
> I would very much appreciate it if we could continue this conversation without assuming bias or ignorance.
Being a user and being knowledgeable of what constitute a good input interface are two different things.
If you ask people right now they will say touch screens are great, but they are wrong, physical keys are better, we have senses, if we don't use them, we are artificially making us disabled.
Which is never great.
Devices should enhance our capabilities, not cripple them.
Having to remember hundreds of arcane key combos, spread over 10 modifiers it's the exact opposite of good design.
That's why we invented CUA.
> What is the correct way to copy text from a terminal then?
if mouse is enabled
select with LEFT mouse clicked, paste with MIDDLE mouse click
otherwise
ALT+insert SHIFT+insert
that's legacy though, I agree if you are thinking it, but it's out of necessity, not out of will, that it is better to know what works everywhere.
knowing basic vi will enable you to edit text files everywhere on Unix, Emacs not really, Joe? let's hope it's Linux.
> I just want the key bindings to remain consistent, to reduce mental fatigue.
that's exactly why having CMD, CTRL, OPTION (that everybody else call ALT!) is a bad idea.
Apple is so innovative that they can't let go their original keyboard from 40 years ago.
At least back then the Apple key was the Apple logo, it had a branding purpose.
> If I'd open Counter Strike in VS Code (100% possible, see TFA), then I would 100% expect left click to shoot.
of course. because in that case you would be running CS inside VSCode.
but VSCode could disable overriding what the left click does if they wanted to.