I find if pressed, most people can't come up with anything excepting that Windows, Mac OS, and the various window managers all chose poorly when it comes to cut

I find if pressed, most people can't come up with anything excepting that Windows, Mac OS, and the various window managers all chose poorly when it comes to cut / copy / paste and the fact that emacs uses C-w, M-w,and C-y instead is just too mind blowing for them to comprehend.