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Windows shortcut is win shift s to take an equivalent of Mac (print screen is not the same thing). But to be clear you’re not really talking about specifics, you’re generalizing. On windows you get a specific list of shortcuts that are only possible with the windows key (and alt if you need to type special characters). And that list is exceedingly small. You need to use something like autohotkey to get others, and I’m not talking about for remapping. I’m talking about simple stuff like “toggle dock hiding on/off” or “adjust the screen brightness” (literally impossible on windows to change this without an external program). On Mac you have hundreds just to start with and then if you want you can jump into AppleScript or Automator which is built in. And if that doesn’t cover it, you use karabiner then. If you don’t like using multiple keys then map caps lock to cmd shift and then you’ve got an even shorter keyboard shortcut than windows.

You can believe that the defaults are illogical, but you can literally customize any of the default keyboard shortcuts on Mac, while that just isn’t true about windows. And on top of that you have shortcuts available that just aren’t there on windows (I literally chose the first two I saw in the Mac settings and then verified that they weren’t possible on Windows, I’m sure most of them aren’t even possible on windows without an external program).