Another key for me to pop off my keyboard. Great.
reminds me of the chromebook search key
Can they just make the copilot shortcut on my taskbar permanently fuck off? It appears erratically and I don’t seem to be able to get rid of it when it’s there.
I dual boot PopOS which has been great. Only use Windows for a couple of games that don’t work well with proton.
F. I still have a W10 drive for VR games.
i dont really understand the revenue model here. i also dont understand how there’s going to be enough computational power to do LLM shit for all windows users all the time? this sounds bad for the environment.
That’s funny, because getting an ad for Copilot inside my startmenu was actually what made me go back to Linux after 10 years.
This tracks.
Wonder if it will be CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + WIN + C
Now I’m wondering, with which fingers would you press all those buttons? The most comfortable way to press these keys with 1 hand is to rotate the keyboard 180 degrees
They don’t intend for you to, it’s just easier to make a giant button combo that their generic HID driver handles as a special case than to create a custom keyboard protocol with their special key enums and a custom driver that only windows supports.
how could it possibly be that urgent that it needs a key dedicated to it
It’s probably like the Bixby button on my Samsung phone: all it does is complain I haven’t set it up yet when I accidentally push it while changing the volume.
You don’t just remap it to screen on and off?
I am getting flashbacks to the multimedia keyboards on yesteryear:
https://deskthority.net/wiki/Multimedia_keyboard
Thanks MS, but no thanks, I don’t need it.
I love these, it has actual useful keys
I will admit that the volume wheel was awesome
yeah, the media controls are actually useful.
As long as it’s treated like a media key and not an intrusion of the standard, then I couldn’t care less. It’s a stupid idea, but Microsoft is so often full of those.
Edit> And after reading the article…of course MS is intruding on the standard just like they did with the windows key, but at least that one was turned into “meta” or “super”. I guess this will guarantee I won’t buy another MS keyboard.
The Windows key turning into “super” and getting some use on Linux was just Linux DE finding a use for that key nobody asked for.
On the other hand… Super Duper Key.
Touché
It’s Microsoft, intrusion of standards is their entire M.O.
It’s the “extend” in “embrace, extend, extinguish”.
Couldn’t they just convert some existing unused key, like Scroll Lock? To be honest, even Pause/Break seems outdated to me.
how the fuck can they just decide this
Microsoft is a monopoly. Stallman was right, as usual in software
stallman is still right
Probably through licensing agreements with PC retailers.
But you can also just decide not to buy them.
can i decide to buy a keyboard without the windows key today?
Umm, it’s just a keycap. You can map the key to whatever you want.
agreed, however it defeats the point that its going to be optional if they really decide to do it.
sure, any Apple keyboard
There’s always the IBM Model M or, if you prefer USB, there are remakes with it.
Wow it’s yuuge
Why? Win+C launches Copilot already, if you want to use it. It’s simple enough currently, why change it? This will just make everything worse.
Why? Investment hype
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Time to buy some more of those little Tux keyboard superkey stickers :)
Everyone talking it’s bad but I think it’s not, I mean you got another key for shortcut to anything you want after uninstall that crap it’s useless anyway
i run linux on a surface and it’s great. when it breaks beyond repair though, i won’t get another because of bullshit like this
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