Your post makes me think that on the whole, we have a rather personal relationship with our OS’s! I know I adore linux, hate windoze and macs - well I’m just not part of that cult.
It’s a relationship that is not just emotionally based (although that is a big part of it) but also intellectually based - we all know how to get stuff done in our OS of choice typically.
I have custom keyboard shortcuts in linux and such a thing is actually trivial to do. The codecs issue is more substantive and you do have to tweak those things but by and large I can watch and listen to what I want to on linux but as I said on another post I once spent a long time getting Pipelight to work (a linux alternative to Silverlight).
Ultimately we invest emotion, time and effort into our OS of choice and if we move to some other OS those investments most often have to be remade and that triggers all sorts of other emotions.
And it’s no use telling others - look you have to love MY OS - because they probably won’t and think you stupid.
That’s the world in which we live and operate.
Like a car, it becomes somewhat of an extension of yourself, as long as it does what you want, and does not do what you do not.
I have custom keyboard shortcuts in linux and such a thing is actually trivial to do.
Must be a secret! It can depend on which flavor you have, but can you remap CapsLock to ctrl+c, and Esc to ctrl+v, and then NumLock to Esc, and make it remain thru sessions? I did done a lot of search but could not get CapsLock remap in Linux Mint.
The codecs issue is more substantive and you do have to tweak those things
I was referring to the legal issues for restricted proprietary types . I can convert files to non-proprietary, or purchase the proprietary licenses.
But i hope Linux will get better, God willing.