Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994

HeavyDogFeet@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Sheeple@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Capslock is kinda useful for if you’re disabled. I also found it’s great on devices that are meant for one handed use too like phones.

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  • HeavyDogFeet@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s fair. You could still have that same functionality through something like double tapping the shift key, but I guess that might also be hard for some people.

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    • Sheeple@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That would introduce a point of annoyance IMO. Just remember that in older versions tapping it 5 times would trigger sticky keys. You’d constantly accidently trigger capslock when typing fast.

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• AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  LEAVE MY CAPS LOCK KEY ALONE! /s

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  • A7thStone@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Rule 39

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Google tries that once, it didn’t go over very well.

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  • GadolElohai@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @aeronmelon I hear it consistently praised as one of the best things in Chromebooks.

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  • CatTrickery@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I briefly used a chromebook with linux on at the start of last year as a sorta dumb terminal to my desktop until I could get something a bit better. The keyboard was one of the pros, despite all the flex.

    On my main laptop I now bind caps lock to super and, since it has an ansi keyboard and I live in the UK, I bind the windows key to compose. It has changed my typing significantly for the better.

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  • HeavyDogFeet@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I know they did, and I’ve only heard praise for it.

    I’ve even remapped my caps lock on my Mac to be another modifier key. I can still tap it to toggle caps lock, but I don’t think I’ve ever used it for that.

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  • TwinTusks@bitforged.space ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That is actually my favorite part of Chromebook keyboards (also, I like lowercase)

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• Maestro@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No! I use the "Caps" key a hundred times a day! I have it mapped to output "Esc" though...

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  • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I had it mapped to enter at one point for faster copy pasting of code. Ctrl+c, ctrl+v, pinky capslock enter, ctrl+c etc.

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  • HidingCat@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Mine's set to the Application/Menu key on tap, and as a Fn modifier when held, so the WASD keys act as the arrows, Q and E as PageUp/Down, and R and F as Home and End. It's gotten so convenient I do that subconciously on keyboards that don't do that, and I end up with SSSSSSSSS or EEEEEEEEEEE.

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    • Maestro@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have ended too many mails with :wq

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• ShortFuse@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Google did this for ChromeOS and I think it’s great. You get the old function with Alt+Search.

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• merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You mean “properly positioned CTRL”.

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