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Image transcription: a meme that reads"I wish windows had a universal hotkey to open linkedin on my default browser ctrl + shift + alt + win + L:" below is an image of Mercy from Overwatch holding her hand out in a gesture that suggests offering aid. End transcription.

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[–] cryptix@discuss.tchncs.de 112 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Didnt belive it . Tried it . Confused. What were they thinking when they decide to make this

[–] unmarketableplushie@pawb.social 75 points 2 years ago (2 children)

iirc Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Win is an alias for the Office key found on some Surface Pro computers, which can be used to open LinkedIn with Office + L

[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 58 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Win is one of the most windows things that could happen. You just press some keys that should do nothing and boom, microsoft ad. I hope the EU version of windows will be stripped of that crap.

[–] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)
whispering give in, dualboot linux
[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My personal machines are all on linux already. But unfortunately my work laptop isn't and won't be unless I find a different job.

Then let's hope for a better windows in Europe

[–] superb@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Dual boot? Disgusting. Windows doesn’t get the privilege of bare metal in my house. It must relegated to a virtual machine

[–] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's good but some people use windows for ~~rootkits~~games that need bare metal or a more difficult vm setup

[–] superb@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago

VM gaming was a lot easier to setup than I expected. Anything is possible with the Arch Wiki! Some anticheats will block you though, so super competitive games like Counterstrike or Apex Legends are out

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 years ago

it's for a special ma keyboard with shortcuts for ms apps.
somw keyboards have an Office key.

[–] perviouslyiner@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

wasn't this part of a plan for a special keyboard with keys for some common websites?

[–] germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 82 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Debian KDE has that same shortcut lmao

[–] spudwart@spudwart.com 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just tested, no it doesn’t.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think it'll be added in plasma 6 then, idk I remember seeing a merge request about it

[–] BautAufWasEuchAufbaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I really gotta see a source for that. No way that would be merged.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 years ago

I mean, it's be funny

[–] phuntis@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago

mint better

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 43 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's a key sequence by default: Win, l, i, n, k, e, d, i, n, Enter

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not if you turned off search results in the start menu.

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago

By default 😹

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's more:

  • T: Teams
  • Y: Yammer (whatever that is)
  • O: Outlook
  • P: PowerPoint
  • D: OneDrive
  • L: LinkedIn
  • W: Word
  • X: Excel
  • N: OneNote
[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not going to install Windows just to try this

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 18 points 2 years ago

Can verify, it works. Am horrified and baffled in equal measure.

[–] dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

LinkedIn lunatics eating good.

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Question though: Does it ACTUALLY pick YOUR default browser, or does it pick their favourite browser?

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 21 points 2 years ago

it actually opens in the default browser

[–] onichama@feddit.de 19 points 2 years ago
[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My pet peeve is when companies add extra complexity to their products for very little benefit, or like this, actually make it worse. In this case they could have done nothing and the product would have been better for it.

[–] FierySpectre@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Well, it's a 'feature' on that one line of laptop. Besides it's not like shortcuts performance suffer because of this, it's merely an obscure 'fun to know'.

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago
[–] CEbbinghaus@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wtf (you can do this with auto hotkey)

[–] tfw_no_toiletpaper@feddit.de 10 points 2 years ago

Break your fingerbones

[–] uis@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Rage shortcut. Reminds me about emerge --rage -C .