No apple keyboard has ever lacked a meta button.
Apple keyboards (used to?*) have different keycodes so the default mappings weren't correct resulting in swapped bindings or even missing ones: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AppleKeyboard#Mapping_keys_.28Insert.2C_Alt.2C_Cmd.2C_etc..29 [ubuntu.com] https://medium.com/swlh/running-linux-on-my-macbook-9738b3b4f84d [medium.com]
Anyhow, since users are expected to change their bindings on first use, the only requirement is for the default setup to be good enough for people to be able to reach their editors and terminals.
* https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Apple_Keyboard [archlinux.org] suggests there's still many small issues...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 11 2020, @02:53PM (1 child)
No apple keyboard has ever lacked a meta button.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Monday October 12 2020, @10:43AM
Apple keyboards (used to?*) have different keycodes so the default mappings weren't correct resulting in swapped bindings or even missing ones: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AppleKeyboard#Mapping_keys_.28Insert.2C_Alt.2C_Cmd.2C_etc..29 [ubuntu.com] https://medium.com/swlh/running-linux-on-my-macbook-9738b3b4f84d [medium.com]
Anyhow, since users are expected to change their bindings on first use, the only requirement is for the default setup to be good enough for people to be able to reach their editors and terminals.
* https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Apple_Keyboard [archlinux.org] suggests there's still many small issues...
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