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I use several GUIs every day: my phone is probably the least keyboard intensive. But while I've got my desktop set up to be mostly keyboard controlled, I still use a trackball for, oh, games, GIMP, DarkTable, that sort of thing. I'm mostly in a tabbed WM, though, so no mousing there. And I use a bunch of TUI applications, all of which have their own key bindings. Oddly, when I use applications that require a mouse, I mostly just use the mouse and not key bindings.
I don't like having to constantly move my hands between the keyboard and mouse, and none of the TUI apps that i can think of use ^s for save or ^z for undo.
But to answer your implied question: I haven't had to use Windows since... 2003? -ish? And even then it was only a couple of years; my first job out of college in 1996 let me run Linux on my workstation, and that lasted until 2000. Then I didn't have a choice for a couple of years, between 2000 and 2003, when Macs started being fashionable, and I used those at work until 2016 or so. After 2016, I've been in positions where I had enough pull to dictate my work environment, and it's been all Linux.
During the Mac years, the hotkeys were all ⌘- and don't hold the same space in my head; like, ctrl-s and ⌘-s may do the same thing, but if you day "ctrl-s" I don't translate it to "⌘-s" because Macs also have a separate ctrl-s which is different. Also, on the Macs I spent most of my time in terminals, anyway.