Nope it should be under your pinkie to get the span of your hand. Otherwise you're constantly crossing the fingers into an ok for which atrophies the muscles. You're wearing the joint and nerve of the thumb. "Cut" should be left hand pinky on Ctrl and left hand index finger on C. Similiar for paste. Most shortcuts cross the keyboard. Often left hand ctrl and right hand key in such a way as to extend both hands out.
As to brew there was some argument back when I first installed it that it should run as sudo. Then that was found to be terrible, but unless one really gets into brew and all that, figuring out how to undo the mess is neigh on impossible. So my answer was screw it. I do most of my server work in Linux VMs. Anything I need I'll just work in those too.
Then there's the terrible productivity from loosing shortcuts. You see, in the non-Apple world, the Alt key brings up the menu. Now if one pays attention, they can find that hitting Alt + Lettered Key can pick the menu that opens. Further, a bit more sleuthing shows that (while holding Alt, often) letters within the menu items get little bars under them. By pressing that letter while the menu opens, the software reacts as if the mouse manually scurried across the screen to the menu, then down to the sub item and then clicked it. The benefit is that more shortcuts opened up. IDE became even more powerful by allowing chording (like a piano). Unlike Emacs, the chords are often dual handed so the hands span more than contract. Interestingly, while the precise keyboard strokes are different, the general idea transfer across most windowed environments in Linux and Windows. Apple eschewed this for reason I don't know, and won't deign the idea they did it solely out of hubris back in the Lisa era.
> As to brew there was some argument back when I first installed it that it should run as sudo.
I've been using brew for nearly as long as it has existed. AFAIK, the point of the tool was to make it so that sudo would be unnecessary for installing individual packages. Are you suggesting there was a debate over whether installing homebrew itself should require sudo? I don't see how that would have been recommended, given that sudo itself is executed in the install script and is needed, among other things, to create `/usr/local`.
MacPorts.
> Unfortunately the documentation on how to best install that software installer changes, which leads to odd instabilities.
https://github.com/macports/macports-base/releases/download/...
> Shortcuts are terrible because you have to constantly flex the hands in to hit Mac Key + whatever.
The key is near where your thumb should be anyways…