Ooh the key that wrecked video games for decades!
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I still don't get this I don't think I've ever accidentally pressed it while playing a game, and I am someone who constantly presses every wrong key while typing
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I recently bought my first mechanical keyboard, after having used my razer for 8 years, and i was looking into different keycaps, but i ended up having a hard time finding a good keycap set that is of good quality, and that i also liked in terms of colors, and has a super key or something like that. The keycaps that i ended up settling on didn't have a super key, so i just ended up putting the windows menu key on the super key, so that it atleast looks a bit more generic than the actual windows key. It's too bad they're hard to find, but i guess it makes sense since there is probably very little demand for it. Another idea is to maybe put a sticker on it or something.
True, I've been looking through AliExpress for a good Linux based keycaps but didn't find anything, sticker is probably my only option
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I have both the windows key for meta and the apple key for alt on my keyboard which balances eachother out I think
My Thinkpad has the Windows logo on the bottom bezel under the display, as well as this. Mostly doesn't bother me, but it does feel a bit wrong for a laptop that all traces of Windows have otherwise been erased from.
I sort of like that on my ThinkPad though. It reminds me of the defiance shown in liberating the laptop from its grim past life.
my kb came with mac keys too so i replaced win key with command, i hate it less
same…. and that stupid “copilot” button thing… (this is so useless)
i’m gonna turn it to a hotkey or something lol.
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Disabled mine a looong time ago
I don't know what I do to keyboards when I use them for a really long time, but I have the exact same laptop frame and keyboard and most modifier keys are unrecognizable and half of the WASD keys are rarely used keys because I fucked up the keycaps while cleaning and I got other keys off the keyboard in place of them. So anyways, my Windows key is abused beyond recognition and you can't tell it was a Windows key.
Holy smoke, that's one well used laptop, I hope my laptop can last as long as yours
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Why are you going right so much more than left
I mean, if you think about it you tend to go right in 2d games, so I'm guessing he's a fan
I mean I usually either play car games using the controller (BeamNG mostly), or I play 2d stuff (Terraria, Stardew Valley), and rarely FPS games (CS2)
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Yep, I have a Framework 16 that was ordered with no OS and yet it came with that key on the keyboard.
It seems that has since been updated to a Framework logo key, but I don't see them selling the key cap alone.