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There's two parts to it. One, that macOS has a proscribed way for apps to compose command, ctrl, and option for shortcuts, whereas it's basically the Wild West on the other platforms. So it's just generally nice on macOS.

The terminal thing is, in the grand scheme of things, minor, but a very nice QoL. It's annoying to mode shift from ctrl as a desktop environment modifier to ctrl as a unix modifier. Especially when ctrl+c can be quite a bit more destructive than "copy".

It's not like it's impossible to adjust, but it's very nice to have command+c do the same thing, everywhere.



> It's not like it's impossible to adjust, but it's very nice to have command+c do the same thing, everywhere.

Yeah, I would sum it up as reducing the number of discrete shortcut sets to remember to the bare minimum, instead lumping as much as possible into the global set.


> One, that macOS has a proscribed way for apps

Presumably, “prescribed”; “proscribed” is essentially the opposite.




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