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Seven? What? There's Control, Option/Alt, Command, and Shift. Four modifier keys. This is the same set you have on other OSes, except there, Command is called
by TazeTSchnitzel 10y ago
Seven? What?
There's Control, Option/Alt, Command, and Shift. Four modifier keys. This is the same set you have on other OSes, except there, Command is called Windows Key or Super.
Yes, Apple has symbols as abbreviations for Control, Command, Option, and Shift. Yes, Option is also called Alt. But it's not really all that complicated.
- linkregister 10y agoThe vast majority of Windows desktop keyboards do not have a fn key.
- yoz-y 10y agoBut all laptops do.
- milesward 10y agoI'm on a Chromebook Pixel 2, and it doesn't have this key. So, no.
- yoz-y 10y agoWhat I really meant was Windows laptops as the parent was expressly mentioning Windows desktops. I did not know about the Chromebook though. I am curious though does it have F keys which are usually the ones that are used with the Fn key on Windows?
- TazeTSchnitzel 10y agoOlder Apple keyboards didn't have them either. I'm using one right now.
- dragonwriter 10y agoThe problem isn't the number of modifiers, the problem is that Apple uses symbols for them in the UI that over time it has progressively removed from keyboards, and which have no obvious connection to the names on the keyboards (except for Ctrl sometimes getting the same ^ treatment on other platforms, this just isn't the case outside of Apple.)
- WildUtah 10y agoOption, Escape, Meta, Alt, Control, Shift: ŒMACS