How to find the same comfort of Mac keyboard and save myself from pinkie finger stress disease?

Question

I'm so used to the comfortable layout of Apple keyboards and I like to use the command key for the most often used combination shortcuts (command-C for copy, command-V for paste and so on), which is very easily accessed with my left thumb. When I switched to other computers (running Linux specifically) I found it very uncomfortable to use the control key instead of command for the same combos, which instead requires the use of the pinkie finger. I just wonder what other Linux converted solutions are, rather then assign different keys function through the Desktop Environment configuration tools.

Solution

I would suggest that you try two things:

1. Use an Apple keyboard with your Linux box.
2. Configure your keyboard so that Ctrl is mapped to Command and vice-versa.

To accomplish #2 you need to change the keyboard mapping. There is an article that describes this process here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/131900/how-do-i-switch-the-command-key-and-control-key-on-a-macbook-pro

Even though the article is aimed at Ubuntu users, the tool it describes is the same in all Linux distros. This only needs to be done on the computer to which the physical keyboard is connected.

Comments

[iAdjunct]

I'll take it a step further: I like the really light resistance of these keyboards as well.

[Hastur]

Please add your Linux system specification (version, if KDE or other...). BTW you may find interesting this answer... Are you using a Mac keyboard connected to linux?

[DavidPostill]

Please do not post the same answer to multiple questions. If the same information really answers both questions, then one question (usually the newer one) should be closed as a duplicate of the other. You can indicate this by voting to close it as a duplicate or, if you don't have enough reputation for that, raise a flag to indicate that it's a duplicate. Otherwise tailor your answer to this question and don't just paste the same answer in multiple places.