The "alt" was added to the option key so that people used to pc machines would know what the key did
Could you elaborate on that, please?
The way I see it it doesn't do the thing many PC users would expect it to do, which is activating menu items with the corresponding letter underlined. AFAIK the Alt key on the Macs is used for special characters/diacritics, which is an entirely different purpose...?
And don't get me started on the following issue: the popular shortcuts in programs (Photoshop, for example) are activated:
- by Ctrl (Ctrl-S) on Windows. Ctrl is the leftmost key on most PC keyboards.
- by Command (Command-S) on Mac. Command is the key just left to the spacebar on Apple keyboards.
- by Windows key on a PC keyboard connected to a Mac. Windows key is exactly in between the keys mentioned above.
- by Ctrl key on Mac keyboard connected to a PC.
Talk about confusion and inability to use your muscle memory! I don't blame any platform for this problem, and I see no simple solution to it [1], but this is 20 years after both platforms started and we're still suffering...
[1] a small help would be the keyboards detecting the platform and remapping accordingly... but what about stuff as Virtual PC? or Remote Desktop connection to a PC?
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