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Am I the only one that thinks we should have dedicated buttons for copy/paste on keyboards? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/asklemmy

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I was just reading this thread... https://sh.itjust.works/post/23476261

...and it got me thinking about something that I've wanted for a long time. Why is it that keyboards have not evolved to have dedicated copy/paste keys left of the main board? I'd love to see an additional column of keys left of Esc->Ctrl configurable as macros at least. I do a lot of copy/paste for work. The current shortcuts arent terrible or anything but they're not exactly comfortable. I'd rather move my whole hand to the left for a macro key than contort to hit the current shortcut.

What do you think?

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[–] victorz 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hey, I'm also 17 years in, with Linux! I started with, I believe, Ubuntu 7.04 or 7.10, Feisty Fawn or Gutsy Gibbon, I can't remember which.

Which was your first distro?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I had been trying it for awhile off and on, but told myself I'd jump in with two feet when I could get wifi working with no troubleshooting. As you know wifi was rough back then sometimes, and I had absolutely no capability to troubleshoot linux. But I figured as long as I had reliable wifi, everything else was just a google away. Oddly, that was not Ubuntu (I probably also tried 7.04 - I expected Ubuntu to be what did it) - it was a now defunct slackware based distro called Zenwalk.

There needs to be a cool word for people who started with Linux in the same year lol. 🙂

[–] victorz 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Cool stuff!

now defunct slackware based distro called Zenwalk

Seems to me like it's a very much alive project still?

There needs to be a cool word for people who started with Linux in the same year lol. 🙂

Yeah! How about:

Linlings
Liblings
Linwins
Lwins

This was hard...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Seems to me like it’s a very much alive project still?

It looked dead to me, but the domain still works etc so maybe I'm wrong. Last blog post looks to be a year old FWIW.

I think I like Linwins, despite the unintentional Windows reference there. 😁

This was hard…

You came up with better ones than I would have though. :)

[–] victorz 2 points 4 months ago

😄 I personally like Linlings, I think... Anyway, thanks for sharing!