19.10, 18.04: How to "fully" use Apple Magic Keyboard on Ubuntu: Keys, remaps, etc

I am trying to convert a bunch of friends of mine to make the switch from Mac OSX to Ubuntu, and from most perspectives it works. The biggest pain point seems to be the keyboard: Apple is really producing nice keyboards, but the usage on Linux (Gnome) is rather limited (which is mostly due to the fact that Apple uses their keys differently).

There are two absolutely fantastic writeups in this regards, one is from the Arch Linux Wiki and the other one from the Ubuntu Wiki, but both miss these important facts from my perspective, which is: the keyboard.

I am facing these pain points, anyone can tell me how to work around them?

• the delete key does not exist in Linux, so we would need to map CMD+backspace to DEL
• 'command' (apple-key) needs to be mapped to 'control' ctrl

Anyone can point me in the right direction?

This is mainly concerning Ubuntu Desktop 19.10 with Gnome. As i stated in the initial sentence, i am searching for something to apply to older and different Ubuntu desktops as well, as this is concerning multiple people.

Solution 1:

On my ubuntu 20.04, fn + backspace works as delete.

Switching control with the cmd which i did as well, download gnome-tweaks and open it's UI. Under keyboard, you can mark change left ctrl for win