Comment 20 for bug 201887

>Uh, this is nonsense, it worked a week ago! And I bought this keyboard because it has comfortable keys, not because I want it to behave like a mac or something. I think most users under linux need the F* keys quite often, >be it for F11 (fullscreen), F2 (rename), alt-F2, alt-F3 (deskbar), F1 (help), and so on.
Yeah well this is what i was thinking too. Look at bug 201711.

Quoting the mailing list that it was turned down on:
"My experience is that the majority of users who run Linux on Apple
hardware are also used to MacOS, and so maintaining consistency with it
is worthwhile. That's entirely independent of the fact that altering
this in the kernel would change the default behaviour of the system for
users who are upgrading, which would be highly confusing.

Apple hardware tends to be intrinsically different to other PC hardware,
and we're limited in our abilities to make it behave identically - the
glaring lack of more than one mouse button is an obvious example of
this.
"