One of the best things I love about macOS is the sheer beautiful consistency, which although not perfect, is a breath of fresh air compared to Windows.
App-level shortcuts almost always use the Command key, global shortcuts generally use Control, and Option/Shift are modifiers.
On Windows sometimes it’s Control, sometimes Alt, and sometimes the same task has different shortcuts in different apps.
What? I think macs being more consistent is in your head. It suffers the exact same issue as Windows and Linux. The issue can't be solved since app developers choose which the shortcuts and not os developers.
> I think macs being more consistent is in your head.
I've used both.
> It suffers the exact same issue as Windows and Linux.
The issue is worse on Windows.
> The issue can't be solved since app developers choose which the shortcuts and not os developers.
Wrong. macOS/AppKit/Cocoa define a lot of standard menu items and shortcuts and provide them to all native apps "for free".
If you look at the shortcuts list for a random Windows app, some shortcuts will use Alt, some will use Control. On macOS, almost all shortcuts use Command, and Option/Control are only modifiers.
Finally, on macOS, you can define custom shortcuts and edit existing shortcuts for any app, from the global Keyboard Preferences.
And you can add your own menu items as well via Automator etc.
App-level shortcuts almost always use the Command key, global shortcuts generally use Control, and Option/Shift are modifiers.
On Windows sometimes it’s Control, sometimes Alt, and sometimes the same task has different shortcuts in different apps.