@ColdWater that and probably the Microsoft root certificate stored in your motherboard's firmware
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Also e.g. the lobbying around ACPI breaking suspend to ram sometimes. Funny little Bill Gates quote on that:
One thing I find myself wondering about is whether we shouldn’t try and make the “ACPI” extensions somehow Windows specific. It seems unfortunate if we do this work and get our partners to do the work and the result is that Linux works great without having to do the work. Maybe there is no way to avoid this problem but it does bother me. Maybe we could define the APIs so that they work well with NT and not the others even if they are open. Or maybe we could patent something related to this.
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The super key
the meta key
the "window manager goes brrrrr" key
ah yes. the $Mod key
$mainMod*
yeah i renamed it and wasn't sure what tge original was
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I used to have this really awesome early 2000's transparent blue plastic keyboard with all the newest media keys. The only problem was that it had 4 windows keys on it! One on either side of the spacebar. The right side of the spacebar was Alt, Windows, Context menu, CTRL. That was a bit weird but it was alright. The next placements were crazy though. Someone figured there was space for more keys right below the Delete, End and Page Down keys but I guess they couldn't really figure out what would be best for there so they put a 3rd Windows key, a 2nd Context Menu and then a 4th Windows key right there. This was pretty close to the arrow keys and if anyone remembers gaming in the early 2000's, pressing the windows key accidentlly would often just crash your game completely. If you could get back into it, it could take quite a while for it to respond again. So if you were playing something like Warcraft 2 multiplayer, that button was a fucking nightmare.
Ugh, I loved the colour of that keyboard so much I put up with all those windows keys.
edit: I can't believe I found it! I've tried searching for this keyboard a few times, but finally found proof on this site!
Wow, that is pretty but also atrocious
Wow, Win98 logo and media buttons? Truely between eras.
I actually like the context key above the arrow keys, another method of effectively right-click is nice. Those Win keys are crazy though, that's the perfect place for extra function keys. Imagine having f13 & f14 that you can bind to anything without worry!
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I wish I could change the keycap of this key on every keyboard I own.
heres a sticker if your really dedicated
"Cute little thing like that, yeah, I'll grab 20, one for each keyboard in the house, a few at work, a few left over for harmless pranks SEVENTY NINE DOLLARS clooose tab"
I'm sure the quality is nice but I'm just gonna scribble Tux in with sharpie.
Since it was $79 I assume you just typed 20 in the quantity, but if you do the multiple quantity discount for 10 stickers it's half as much. $2 per is still a bit on the expensive side, but it's not nearly as bad lol.
Did you click the wrong discount? $79 is the price for 100.
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Just put a lil bit o' tape over it. I'm actually insane and put tape over most of the logos around my house hahahah
Well it's not like they paid you to display their logo. I think you're just fiscally responsible and more people should do that.
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You can but unless they're easily swapped with a ready made key it's usually not worth the time effort and cost.
Couldn't you just place a sticker on top? I know that you'll either not get the led light or it's gonna look a bit funny in the dark if part of the windows logo shines through if the sticker is not thick enough, but you can place a tiny tux sticker there!
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I'm petty enough to put stickers over mine.
If you want an alternative, lab label tape is a bit pricy but is super durable, comes in fun colors, doesn't leave residue, and sticks for practically forever.
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And soon, new laptops will have a second forced stupid Microsoft key. The copilot key.
Not even joking.
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Let's pray for the day that future generations will know that to be the Super key, but like the floppy disk icon for 'Save' they won't know why it is what it is.
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There are distro decals you can replace with :)
Tips for coping:
- Call it the Super key (actually the correct label I think)
- Bind window management related hotkeys to it
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I hate that shit so much. I don't buy keyboards with the Windows key logo on it anymore.
Why is there a Win-Lock option? I get Caps Lock and Fn-Lock but is there any other reason besides saving a finger for the all-important Win-Ctrl-Alt-Shift-L shortcut to open LinkedIn? /s
Its on gaming laptops so when you are playing, you dont accidentally open windows menu
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