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).

  • Kethal@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    So you use your mouse to click on the start menu button, scroll through the menu and click again on the program? That sounds awful. I click the Windows button and type the program name.

    • MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub
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      9 days ago

      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

      • wols@lemm.ee
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        7 days 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.

      • LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        I prefer OpenShell, since it unfucks the start menu and makes it usable. It’s just like Win7 but easy to customize.

        • pulverizedcoccyx@lemmy.ca
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          8 days ago

          I only ever see the real start menu on other people’s computers. Openshell is like ublock, without it your face tends to contort and twist like you ate a lemon.

      • Kethal@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

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

        • rivalary@lemmy.caEnglish
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          8 days ago

          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.

          • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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            8 days ago

            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.