Hey, folks,
My laptop broke the other day, and I need a replacement asap. But here's the rub: I despise windows. I've been a full time fedora user on my main device for a decade now, and I run Ubuntu on my desktop that I rarely touch because it's ooooold. I am not a techy person. At all. I'm an idiot, actually. I use Linux because it's cheaper, it keeps my aging hardware alive longer, and because politically I align pretty well with the idea of FOSS. And because I absolutely hate windows. I don't even like KDE, because it reminds me of windows. Cinnamon? Too much like windows! Lol. I love my workflow in gnome, I love that it's shiny and pretty and looks nice. And for the most part, I'm a browser based user. I rarely have cause to do much outside of the browser, except for sail the seas for some audiobooks. Even my papers for school are written in Google docs.
But also, on my desktop or a secondary device, I don't mind having to fiddle with things and get them working, I enjoy it. It makes me feel like I have actual tech skills when I absolutely do not. But on the device I use for school I just want something that works and I never have to think about. I feel like a traitor to the cause even considering it, but I think I want to get a used m1 air. I've never used a Mac before, though. I used an iPhone once, for about 10-15 minutes, and I hated it. But, like, of course I did. It was completely different, and incapable of doing the thing I wanted it to do.
How painful is the Linux to Mac transition? If I'm using an android phone, an Ubuntu desktop, and a MacBook, how awful is everything going to be to switch between devices? Am I going to regret this purchase, or, worse yet, become an apple fan boy and abandon my glorious FOSS devices forever?
Please assist
I have a Keychron keyboard, it ships with Mac and windows keys. I have it set up for my Steam deck, I replaced the physical control key with the cmd key, I also changed the remapping so be closer to my MacBook pro's keyboard.
Does it do something to make ctrl-r and cmd-c use the same physical modifier key? Because that would be ideal. Although tbh, I quite like that cmd-c and ctrl-c don't conflict, I almost think that maybe apple got it right and and everyone else messed up.
Apple is the one who created cmd-z/x/c/v.
IIRC CTRL-R = force reload a webpage which is cmd+option-r on Mac.
Keychron does allow for a single key stroke to = multiple keys, but I have not looked into doing a key combo = a different key combo. I imagine it is something you could do, as they ship it with their own function key to control the keyboard outside of the os for things like backlighting.