fun fact: old school command-line users know all about keyboard shortcuts and we love them. We just never became managers, because fuck that.
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I very rarely use that feature so I forget the windows+arrow shortcut. My favorite shortcuts are shift+arrow when inputting text to highlight text, ctrl+arrow to skip text by word (left and right, but ctrl with up and down mimic home and end keys) and the combination ctrl+shift+arrow to highlight one word at a time. I also like ctrl+shift+esc to pop open task manager directly instead of using ctrl+alt+delete and then selecting task manager.
Oh yeah, and taking a screenshot with windows+shift+s. I think Windows 11 added windows+shift+r to record video.
I worked with this kid born in the year 2000 for about 11 months. He was in very loose terms "IT", when he was typing ont he keyboard hed always hit the caps lock to type something in upper case, and when I questioned him on why he did that he responded "what do you do? Hold shift?" In a tome that implied I was somehow the weird one. He also had trouble typinh any symbols on the number row and had to be told to hold shift.
Believe it or not this incompetent IT guy was fired for his incompetence in IT (and shitty people skills)
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Since we're talking about Windows:
WinKey + .
to open up the secret emoji/symbols toolbox. 🫛
It does the same thing on KDE Plasma!
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Millennials trying to act like Gen Xers don’t know shortcuts? Whatever.
More that Gen X doesn't exist; it seems to go Boomers, Millenials, Gen Z
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Ikr? We were learning keyboard based commands because mice weren't a thing at the time. Even filthy casuals picked up some over the decades
I remember those WordPerfect paper templates you'd put over the keyboard to list all the shortcuts.
Lotus 1-2-3
Em... Well...
no it's the normal erasure of gen x from the timeline
The timeline goes
Old dead boomers
Dying wealthy boomers
Young poor boomers
Gen y
Millennials
Gen z
Gen alpha
Blame boomers. Millennials is their catchall term for whatever generation they're complaining about regardless if it's Millennials, Gen X, Z, Alpha, etc.
At the same time, I feel anyone under 25 describes anyone over 25 as boomer, so that ain't helping either lol.
Gen Y = millennials
The normal erasure of Millennial Falcons from the timeline?
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Love it. I think we need a new community.
No boomers allowed
Haha, fuck yeah!
For the absolute longest time (at least from Windows 95 through Windows 7, perhaps even later version but I dunno on that), every now and then after you exit a game, you can't properly drag and drop nor double click anything on the desktop.
Eventually I found a particular game that would consistently cause this issue, which got me wondering what all the game was doing upon exit. I theorized that maybe it left the keyboard buffer in something of a goofy state.
So, I started with the thought that Windows must be thinking that a key is still being held down when it wasn't. And sure enough, just tapping the Esc key managed to refresh the keyboard buffer and resolve the issue.
You should easily be able to see the effects of this bug manually by holding down Esc and trying to use the mouse, stuff just ain't gonna work right. So if you ever happen to encounter this bug, just tap the Esc key to refresh the keyboard buffer.
What's a windows key? Proper keyboards have modifier keys named shift, ctrl, meta, super and hyper.
Lol stop, y'all lost years ago. I press the Windows™️ key on my Linux machine all the time.
ಠ_ಠ
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Sometimes it's something simple like CTRL-C, then CTRL-V and the person watching you is like: wait how did you do that?!
You joke.
I had a hardcore boomer who worked mainframes - he was a mainframe wizard - refuse a redundancy payment (at age 60 - would have been a year plus wages). He was told if he didn't take it, he would be moved to a team elsewhere. He shows up in my team and I had to teach him how to do copy paste. Then the shortcuts blew his mind.
He still used a pen and paper to change passwords (kept a small pile of them on his desk, and none were labeled but that's another story).
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The fact that Windows still doesn't have a shortcut to move windows between Virtual Desktops is mind boggling to me. I had to download an AHK script just to replicate basic features included in KDE, Gnome and probably most of the tiling WMs.
MS software also doesn't play nice with virtual desktops. Opening excel files or answering teams calls yanks you all over your workflow.
Alas, working an Excel job in a non-tech field, I fear I will suffer Windows the rest of my working life ☠️
To be fair, windows literally didn't have virtual desktops until a version or two ago. Which is mind boggling given Linux had it in the 90s
It also didn't have tabs in the file explorer for the longest time. I remember having to download some random exe from a dodgy site just to have them in W7
I showed an extension that lets you do the same on a Mac to a non-technical friend of mine who works in marketing and he was like "wow I can't believe it works" like it was the second coming or something, one day I'll have to tell him about i3wm and tmux and vim...
This is actually built-in on macos now
https://www.theverge.com/24273664/apple-macos-sequoia-windows-snap-how-to
Oh shit there's a shortcut to do that? I've just been dragging one window to the side and then clicking the other when the thingy pops up, like some kind of caveman! 😩
This is what I do. Without looking it up, I have a whisper of a thought that win + arrow is used to, like, rotate the screen or switch monitors or something...
In highschool I blew my HTML teacher's mind when I showed her this. She had been manually resizing windows for years.
To be fair, window snapping in Windows is a rather recent feature. I think it was introduced in Windows 7.
Man just wait till you see what you can do with Win+Tab.
And Win+V
It’s like alt+tab but worse!
Same! And I’m a millennial.
I don't feel like that method is inferior, it's just different. Especially depending on the kind of work you're doing, keyboard or mouse may feel more efficient.
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