<story><title>Switching from macOS to Pop_OS</title><url>https://support.system76.com/articles/switch-from-macos-to-popos/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xedrac</author><text>Why bother implementing ctrl+c and ctrl+v in Linux when highlighting text copies it, and middle click pastes it?  Ctrl+c feels like the dark ages in comparison.</text></item><item><author>somenewaccount1</author><text>Lol. I came here to say the only thing that matters is that copy and paste in Linux is &amp;#x27;cntrl+shift+c&amp;#x27;.  You can try changing it, but your still fucked in most terminals, and then you end up with two key combos depending on context.  It&amp;#x27;s a nightmare, and I&amp;#x27;m really glad you have the top comment. Clearly I&amp;#x27;m not alone.</text></item><item><author>im_down_w_otp</author><text>All I want in life is a Linux distro with a package repo full of meticulously reworked &amp;amp; reconfigured packages that make all the keyboard shortcuts across the entire system and every application be like and be as consistent as my old Macs.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been full-time Linux (Kubuntu) for a few years now, and I&amp;#x27;ve hobbled together something that only irritates me to death about 30% of the time rather than the 100% of the time it used to before spending days and days fiddling with a bunch of different flavors of remapping at nearly every layer of the system.&lt;p&gt;If I&amp;#x27;m ever fabulously wealthy, I already know I&amp;#x27;m just going to finance an open source fastidious spiritual successor to MacOS 10.6&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m going to give Pop_Os a try, but I suspect I&amp;#x27;m going to run into the same problems I always do. The trouble with Linux as a desktop for me isn&amp;#x27;t weather it&amp;#x27;s beautiful or not. The problem is how disintegrated everything is and the thousand papercuts ways in which it works.&lt;p&gt;That said, I absolutely consider it basically an incredible miracle that the experience is as good as it is, frankly. So, I keep at it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mindwok</author><text>The biggest pain with this is when you want to highlight some other text to paste over. For example I use the keyboard method for copying urls and pasting into my address bar, otherwise when you select all on the address bar you copy that instead.</text></comment>
<story><title>Switching from macOS to Pop_OS</title><url>https://support.system76.com/articles/switch-from-macos-to-popos/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xedrac</author><text>Why bother implementing ctrl+c and ctrl+v in Linux when highlighting text copies it, and middle click pastes it?  Ctrl+c feels like the dark ages in comparison.</text></item><item><author>somenewaccount1</author><text>Lol. I came here to say the only thing that matters is that copy and paste in Linux is &amp;#x27;cntrl+shift+c&amp;#x27;.  You can try changing it, but your still fucked in most terminals, and then you end up with two key combos depending on context.  It&amp;#x27;s a nightmare, and I&amp;#x27;m really glad you have the top comment. Clearly I&amp;#x27;m not alone.</text></item><item><author>im_down_w_otp</author><text>All I want in life is a Linux distro with a package repo full of meticulously reworked &amp;amp; reconfigured packages that make all the keyboard shortcuts across the entire system and every application be like and be as consistent as my old Macs.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been full-time Linux (Kubuntu) for a few years now, and I&amp;#x27;ve hobbled together something that only irritates me to death about 30% of the time rather than the 100% of the time it used to before spending days and days fiddling with a bunch of different flavors of remapping at nearly every layer of the system.&lt;p&gt;If I&amp;#x27;m ever fabulously wealthy, I already know I&amp;#x27;m just going to finance an open source fastidious spiritual successor to MacOS 10.6&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m going to give Pop_Os a try, but I suspect I&amp;#x27;m going to run into the same problems I always do. The trouble with Linux as a desktop for me isn&amp;#x27;t weather it&amp;#x27;s beautiful or not. The problem is how disintegrated everything is and the thousand papercuts ways in which it works.&lt;p&gt;That said, I absolutely consider it basically an incredible miracle that the experience is as good as it is, frankly. So, I keep at it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zamadatix</author><text>I usually use middle paste on a desktop mouse but keyboard paste on a touchpad device. As for copying on highlight it depends how you manage your windows, if you use a traditional floating WM and typically click windows to select them you end up with a lot of single character copies messing with your clipboard. Doubly so in the touchpad case again. Or if you like to highlight to bulk delete&amp;#x2F;replace or if you like to highlight to simply highlight the section on your terminal as you read a manpage or whatever in another window or probably more use cases that didn&amp;#x27;t immediately come to mind.&lt;p&gt;Point being it&amp;#x27;s more about use case matching than one option being the dark ages and another being The One Right Way™. Layer on that some like using clipboard history and others just want a single parking space and it gets even more blurry.</text></comment>