You can tho? You can use arrow keys to move around the text, and hold down control to move by entire words in most apps. CMD + C to copy and CMD + V to paste (CMD is what they call the super key). But yeah, they're trying to push a pointer-centric design that nobody really wants instead of putting the keyboard first.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

That's copy/paste. There is no cut command in Mac AFAIK. There's only the move command, which requires an additional modifier when pasting. If there's a key combo for that modifier, then I would like to know what it is. The only way I know how to do it is with the context menu from right clicking and the modifier key. But still, why do they do it differently than every other operating system?

[–] Iamdanno@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Because they are smarter than you, and know what you need better than you do, duh!

[–] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Cut is just Command + X. You can swap in Command for most of the windows shortcuts that use control. Why didn't Apple just use the Control button for Control things? That I do not know.

[–] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

You could also just right click though /shrug