@swh Nice going. Yes, I found his choice of shortcuts cumbersome. For me, I would prefer two chorded bindings (he often uses three, including Shift, Ctrl and so on) therefore I remapped most of them and I think I mapped every letter or punctuation key with Meta. Incidentally, take a look at this to map your space bar as a second Meta key when used as a chord (in combination with another key).
I’m just torrenting the Galileo ISO as we speak (it just dropped). I will use it to create a fresh installation on my old laptop. I will choose ‘No Desktop’ to cut down on updates on that machine.
Welcome to the club, and happy tweaking 