• lost_screwdriver@thelemmy.club
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    1 month ago

    To be fair: I switched to Linux 6 years ago. I’m using a tiling windowmanager, a lot of custom scripts, a different keyboardlayout with six instead of two layers (great for writing greek math, and other symbols) and an enthusiastic emacs user. I know the my System in and out. As a CS end math student, I know a fair bit about a Computer. But when A sit in front of an ordinary windows PC, I am a little bit upset. I stumble a lot of times over the thought: “You don’t have a keyboard shortcut for this! You have to use the Mouse, to switch Windows or you have to click yourself trough a menu to change this setting. There are no man pages you can search with regex” I hate it!

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      1 month ago

      Some of the legacy keyboard shortcuts still survive to this day.

      I live by Windows+R for the run dialogue.

      If you populate %userprofile% with shortcuts named after keywords to your commonly used apps (eg fire.lnk for Firefox) then you can just slap Windows+R, type fire, Enter.

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        1 month ago

        Win+X is also great. Especially since the Start Menu doesn’t allow for quick shutdown commands since Win 8.