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Pressing 'delete' on a selected file doesn't delete it but pressing 'backspace' does. WTF?
Further confusing is that Mac keyboards have the backspace key labeled as "delete". Which makes sense really, but when the universal way to refer to that key is backspace, it's just them being stubborn morons who don't want to change it. They could've labelled the escape key "exit" or something else on that same logic but didn't. I like a lot about MacOs (nothing else about apple though) but some of the hard lines they've taken are just idiotic to me. In finder you cannot cut files... I've read the long winded justification and it can fuck off. Every other platform lets you do that. It's convenient and not confusing at all but apple people will insist cutting a file doesn't make sense.
I thought you could when I last used it, back when it was called Mac OS X, so I just searched and TIL they removed cmd-X for files in 2015, but, you actually can still cut files; it's just another hidden keyboard shortcut now: after you copy a file with cmd-C you can retroactively make it a cut when pasting by typing cmd-option-V instead of cmd-V. Intuitive, no?