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Re:Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days? by tomrod on Saturday October 16, 2021 @09:21AM (#28887701)
I recently picked up a Mac for client work. I have a hard time with the muscle memory on keyboard mapping. I get there are legacy reasons for the differences, but would love a toggle option to switch mappings to Linux.
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Re:Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days? by _mitch on Saturday October 16, 2021 @11:00AM (#28888312)
I'm the same way (switch between Linux, MacOS, and Windows) and use Karabiner-Elements on Mac to remap keys and standardize shortcuts.

https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/

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Re:Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days? by Oddskar on Saturday October 16, 2021 @03:05PM (#28890480)
I have the same problem. I build different modes into my keyboard via QMK that I can switch via special key combos. It works okish, with the exception being that modifiers just work differently on Mac with Cmd not really cleanly mapping to Ctrl — don’t you find this annoying?
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