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Almost 25 years in and I don't think I've ever even heard of using Insert for copy/paste.
You just highlight what you want and the middle click where you want it. Or Ctrl-v/Ctrl-c. There's a bit of variance from desktop environment to desktop environment but I can't remember that last time one or both of those did not work.
I've been using cntl / shift insert since my os2 days, and I will say those commands still work in windows and I use them daily.
That’s way slower than (on windows) to double click the word or highlight the content then with your other hand type control-C; control-V.
Higklggting and copying/pasting is slow using only the mouse.
I do exactly that dozens of times a day on *nix. Either not understanding what you are wanting or their is something jacked on your rig.
Only in emacs. I think some really old Unix machines had special KBs with a paste key and so emacs default paste key is mapped weird. Most of the time I use middle mouse button (ie press the wheel) which isn't precisely the same as cut and paste but gets the job done.
Just fired up the Tandy 1000 TL with MS-DOS 6.22. MS DOS Edit text editor uses insert for copy and paste. Cut = Shit + Del Copy = Ctrl + Ins Paste = Shift + Ins
Ok, that's a bit encouraging.
Ctrl-v/Ctrl-c does not seem to me to work (consistently) in Ubuntu with Gnome. It does work in some programs.
Middle mouse button probably works for pasting (also for copy?), but I'll probably risk accidentally scrolling.
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