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I'm not a huge fan it has a Windows logo printed on it, but there are good usability reasons for the key, even on non-Windows systems, and there was just a big
by arp242 3y ago
I'm not a huge fan it has a Windows logo printed on it, but there are good usability reasons for the key, even on non-Windows systems, and there was just a big hunk of empty space between Ctrl and Alt before. So nothing is really lost for non-Windows users. It seems to me there are more pressing matters to get angry about than the logo on a keyboard.
And whether we like or not not, Windows is the dominant desktop OS, so "OS operations key" having the Windows logo i not entirely nonsensical really. Almost every non-technical person uses Windows, and even within the technical crowd Windows is probably the most common system.
Bit less of a case for the "Copilot key", although it remains to be seen if "becomes mandatory over time" will come to pass.
- dijit 3y agoI knew someone would bring up the utility of the key as a meta-modifier.[0] Sun keyboards had a diamond to mark that key, which is better to my mind than a third party commercial OS logo. I wouldn't even mind if it was the keyboard manufacturer logo. [0]: https://deskthority.net/wiki/File:Suntype7sf.jpg https://deskthority.net/wiki/File:Suntype7sf.jpg
- everforward 3y agoI got custom keycaps for unrelated reasons that have that on the super key and I wondered what it was. Comically to me, it has both the diamond and Apple's command key logo. Windows is the only one missing.
- chuckadams 3y agoOriginally that diamond was the Sun logo, which was diamond-shaped.
- baq 3y agoI use my windows keyboard on a mac, if that key wasn’t there then I’d have to get a dedicated Mac keyboard.
- dijit 3y agoI'm not suggesting removing the key, merely that every OEM who dares to ship windows being required to place a 3rd party key is myopic. It can even make the laptops/PC's look dated if the OS logo changes.. which has happened.
- twic 3y agoFWIW, on a Das Keyboard, the Windows keys have a little Das logo on them, rather than a Windows logo.
- jcgrillo 3y ago> big hunk of empty space between Ctrl and Alt This empty space can be a feature for emacs users who use the outside of their opposite palm for actuating the ctrl or alt keys. I personally gave up on this approach years ago because it was only viable on my IBM model M which is hard to transport. Instead now I always remap caps to ctrl, that way no matter what keyboard I'm using it feels familiar.
- floxy 3y agoThe Logitech K860 keyboard doesn't have the Windows logo on the Windows key. It has "opt" and "start" along with undecipherable half-a-stew-pot icon: https://www.imore.com/ergo-k860-split-ergonomic-keyboard-review https://www.imore.com/ergo-k860-split-ergonomic-keyboard-rev... ...mostly just posting this to hear what others might think that icon represents.
- dijit 3y agoThat symbol represents an alternative and indicates the function of the key. Its used on Apple computers. IE: alt