Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994::Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards, though not yet.
I don’t want that, plus in the article they say it’s only to open copilot search. Which you can already do with windows+c. And who asked for copilot search? Not to be mean but the basic window search somehow never works right for me and always bring me on the Edge browser instead of opening my files. So if they could fix that instead of bringing AI to still not give me what I want other than a statisticaly correct sentence that would be nice.
Donjuanme@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No, fuck you. It’s hard enough to find a keyboard with Ctrl and Alt in the positions I prefer these days. I don’t need any of the current keys smaller to make room for another one, the only times I hit that stupid key between them is quickly followed by cursing. I remove the windows key from my gaming keyboards because I don’t need it, FN is also a pain, especially when there’s no fn lock toggle. Why don’t we just use that as an alternate key? Microsoft go fuck yourself.
TootSweet@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Plus, fuck them for putting another Microsoft logo on keyboards.
LWD@lemm.ee 10 months ago
There’s some pretty wild keyboards out there, but I have to agree. It’s not that they’re adding another key, it’s that the key has no use.
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Laptop keyboards in general are a real mess. I don’t think there’s any Fn standardization (or any standardization at all outside of desktop keyboards), so these days it’s one of the biggest things I check before considering a purchase.
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Um… that’s your example of a “wild” keyboard? I would’ve gone with a “Steno” keyboard. Which is inspired by the custom keyboards used in court houses to write transcripts. Typing on one of these (once you learn how) is about 3x faster than a querty keyboard:
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laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Holy forking shirtballs, the longer I look at that the worse it gets
As a PowerShell scripter, having the backtick and pipe keys moved with the escape and delete in their places would just drive me batty
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I mean, it seemed pretty obvious from the headline, but the article specifies that while they’re doing this, it’s not like they can somehiw make the 100s (if not thousands) of different keyboard manufacturers include this key…
What might happen later is they require OEM products to have it when they come with Windows.
Which would still really only be an issue for laptops.
And I’m pretty sure even people with “gaming laptops” don’t use the built in keyboard most of the time.
I dunno tho. I’ve never been able to understand the people who buy gaming laptops.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Do they require the windows logo on keyboards?
lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Looks like my next keyboard is going to be a mechanical one. I don’t want a “copilot” key that I won’t use!
infinitevalence@discuss.online 10 months ago
Build your own?