[silon3]

What I find intolerable on a Mac is the behavior of ctrl+left/right. I expect it to jump to previous/next word and nothing else.

[afandian]

That's option (/alt) left and right (and has been, IIRC, for 20 years)

[LiquidFlux]

I use a Windows keyboard with Mac in the office, for me the ALT key replaces the CTRL key.

I don't prefer it, but it works.

[ericwood]

I just swapped the two and it feels more natural! I prefer having the cmd key next to the spacebar.

[aerique]

The default Apple supporter answer would be: "Apple has had these bindings for longer than the defacto standard has been around", but Apple would do well to get with the program and make the defacto standard as used by the rest of the computing world the default.