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Image transcription: a meme that reads"I wish windows had a universal hotkey to open linkedin on my default browser ctrl + shift + alt + win + L:" below is an image of Mercy from Overwatch holding her hand out in a gesture that suggests offering aid. End transcription.

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[–] [email protected] 104 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Didnt belive it . Tried it . Confused. What were they thinking when they decide to make this

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (2 children)

iirc Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Win is an alias for the Office key found on some Surface Pro computers, which can be used to open LinkedIn with Office + L

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Win is one of the most windows things that could happen. You just press some keys that should do nothing and boom, microsoft ad. I hope the EU version of windows will be stripped of that crap.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)
whispering give in, dualboot linux
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My personal machines are all on linux already. But unfortunately my work laptop isn't and won't be unless I find a different job.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Then let's hope for a better windows in Europe

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dual boot? Disgusting. Windows doesn’t get the privilege of bare metal in my house. It must relegated to a virtual machine

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's good but some people use windows for ~~rootkits~~games that need bare metal or a more difficult vm setup

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

VM gaming was a lot easier to setup than I expected. Anything is possible with the Arch Wiki! Some anticheats will block you though, so super competitive games like Counterstrike or Apex Legends are out

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Ah, so that's my ctrl+alt+shift+win opens the office app. I discovered that a couple of years ago and I couldn't find it documented anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

it's for a special ma keyboard with shortcuts for ms apps.
somw keyboards have an Office key.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

wasn't this part of a plan for a special keyboard with keys for some common websites?

[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] uis 19 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Debian KDE has that same shortcut lmao

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

Just tested, no it doesn’t.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it'll be added in plasma 6 then, idk I remember seeing a merge request about it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I really gotta see a source for that. No way that would be merged.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I mean, it's be funny

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

mint better

[–] mvirts 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a key sequence by default: Win, l, i, n, k, e, d, i, n, Enter

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not if you turned off search results in the start menu.

[–] mvirts 26 points 1 year ago

By default 😹

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's more:

  • T: Teams
  • Y: Yammer (whatever that is)
  • O: Outlook
  • P: PowerPoint
  • D: OneDrive
  • L: LinkedIn
  • W: Word
  • X: Excel
  • N: OneNote
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Yammer (now/soon called viva engage) is a weird social media service for internal usage inside a company.

I have no idea why it exists, but it does.

[–] SpaceNoodle 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not going to install Windows just to try this

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Can verify, it works. Am horrified and baffled in equal measure.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

LinkedIn lunatics eating good.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Question though: Does it ACTUALLY pick YOUR default browser, or does it pick their favourite browser?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

it actually opens in the default browser

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago
[–] pennomi 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My pet peeve is when companies add extra complexity to their products for very little benefit, or like this, actually make it worse. In this case they could have done nothing and the product would have been better for it.

[–] FierySpectre 15 points 1 year ago

Well, it's a 'feature' on that one line of laptop. Besides it's not like shortcuts performance suffer because of this, it's merely an obscure 'fun to know'.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago
[–] CEbbinghaus 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wtf (you can do this with auto hotkey)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Break your fingerbones

[–] uis 2 points 1 year ago

Rage shortcut. Reminds me about emerge --rage -C .