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Long story short, Microsoft chose the wrong horse in this race. The fallout from this decision should have been apparent when WSL came into being - I would be s

Long story short, Microsoft chose the wrong horse in this race. The fallout from this decision should have been apparent when WSL came into being - I would be shocked if the WSL didn't use Ctrl-C to send a keyboard interrupt. In your use case, I would put that down to "Enterprise entanglements" where the thing driving the development of Windows features is the needs of business customers and not regular users at home. People need to print far more often than they need to deal with presentation modes in PowerPoint.

vel0city 4y ago
> People need to print far more often than they need to deal with presentation modes in PowerPoint. They can, Windows apps have been able to print since Windows came out. I don't know why you feel that because Super+P (Win+P) doesn't do print then Windows users can't print things. And they can do so with the same keyboard shortcuts they used since before their keyboards even had a Super key. And its not for changing presentation modes in PowerPoint, its for quickly changing your monitor arrangement system-wide. > Microsoft chose the wrong horse in this race. Microsoft (and practically every app developer for DOS/Windows) chose the Control key over the Super key because practically all users at the time didn't have a Super key on their keyboard. Which is more user hostile, force keyboard shortcuts which use a key the vast majority of users don't have, requiring them to buy new keyboards just to use keyboard shortcuts, or repurpose an existing key that a lot of users don't care much about, and that many applications were already intercepting for keyboard shortcuts? > The fallout from this decision should have been apparent when WSL came into being - I would be shocked if the Windows didn't use Ctrl-C to send a keyboard interrupt. Linux apps behave practically the same way as in Windows. Guess what the print shortcut is in gedit? Guess what gedit's copy and paste shortcuts are? Guess Firefox's print or find shortcuts in Linux. Take a look at most of the keyboard shortcuts in tmux. Look up how to copy and paste in gnome-terminal. Guess what key is the most common one in Emacs shortcuts. Hint: they don't use the super key! https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/refcards/pdf/refcard.pdf https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/refcards/pdf/refcard.pdf

vel0city 4y ago

> People need to print far more often than they need to deal with presentation modes in PowerPoint. They can, Windows apps have been able to print since Windows came out. I don't know why you feel that because Super+P (Win+P) doesn't do print then Windows users can't print things. And they can do so with the same keyboard shortcuts they used since before their keyboards even had a Super key. And its not for changing presentation modes in PowerPoint, its for quickly changing your monitor arrangement system-wide. > Microsoft chose the wrong horse in this race. Microsoft (and practically every app developer for DOS/Windows) chose the Control key over the Super key because practically all users at the time didn't have a Super key on their keyboard. Which is more user hostile, force keyboard shortcuts which use a key the vast majority of users don't have, requiring them to buy new keyboards just to use keyboard shortcuts, or repurpose an existing key that a lot of users don't care much about, and that many applications were already intercepting for keyboard shortcuts? > The fallout from this decision should have been apparent when WSL came into being - I would be shocked if the Windows didn't use Ctrl-C to send a keyboard interrupt. Linux apps behave practically the same way as in Windows. Guess what the print shortcut is in gedit? Guess what gedit's copy and paste shortcuts are? Guess Firefox's print or find shortcuts in Linux. Take a look at most of the keyboard shortcuts in tmux. Look up how to copy and paste in gnome-terminal. Guess what key is the most common one in Emacs shortcuts. Hint: they don't use the super key! https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/refcards/pdf/refcard.pdf https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/refcards/pdf/refcard.pdf