Comment by PufPufPuf

You totally can, I used Karabiner-Elements to switch command (behaves like ctrl), option (behaves like alt) and control (behaves ~ like super and like control in terminal) to their usual positions. (You could do this even with bare system settings but iirc they could not switch around differently the left and right keys.)

Then I set up a few shortcuts that were different on macOS I actually used, plus a port of a Linux keyboard layout (I think the US layout mostly matches but I use a national one which differs in the AltGr layer). Surprisingly configurable for an Apple product.