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Does anyone actually use the windows key on their keyboard as intended by the OS? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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Pretty much in the title, the only time I interact with the windows key in its standard operating condition is getting pissed off that the start menu opened. I use it in other capacities such as taking screen shots and other key commands but I got to wondering if anyone, ever actually uses it to access the start menu.

Also if anyone comes here and posts “dOnT uSe wINdoWs,” you really are cute.

Edit: I am more curious if anyone actually gets utility out of its default behavior (opening the start menu). I am aware that it is used in a number of key commands (although some are new to me).

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[–] 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

The real question is who uses the actual start menu, as in tiles and program list. I've only ever seen people type the program name

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The Windows start menu is inexplicably a huge mess. Like all MS products, they cram their interface with as much as possible.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I preferred their nested menus to what is there now, though I started using search as soon as it became a thing (Windows 7?). They should have really implemented categories (like in Linux) early on rather than having every suite have it's own sub-menu in the Start Menu.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You can do that yourself, since Chicago first debuted in ~1994.

    I don't want my OS categorizing stuff for me.

    My start menu is categorized on the root (where "pinned" items go), and I leave the rest of the menu alone.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    The maintainer of the application chooses the categorie(s) but manually organizing things as an end user... is kinda dumb. Maybe I don't understand your workflow (or why the Start Menu is the way it is now with all programs barfed into one list, I figured it was for touch devices). It doesn't really matter, though, because search is used primarily now, anyways. Forgetting the name of the application is the only reason I can see digging through the Start Menu now.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I use the tiles to "pin" programs that I use semi-regularly and can't be bothered remembering the name of. Or that share an inconveniently long prefix with the name of another program. Or that I have multiple versions of installed, with a specific version I usually need.

    I don't like pinning such programs to the task bar because they add unnecessary clutter while not in use.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    I imagine some legacy users who cut their teeth on Windows 95 or something and never changed their ways. I was a Mac user through the mid 2000s and switched back when I got my gaming rig with Windows 10 so I don’t remember when the search bar was implemented—never used the start menu since.

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