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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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[–] cryptix@discuss.tchncs.de 111 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] unmarketableplushie@pawb.social 72 points 10 months 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

[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 56 points 10 months 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.

[–] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 10 months ago (2 children)
whispering give in, dualboot linux
[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 17 points 10 months 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.

[–] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago

Then let's hope for a better windows in Europe

[–] superb@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 10 months 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

[–] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] superb@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months 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

[–] lud@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months 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.

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 13 points 10 months ago

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

[–] perviouslyiner@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

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

[–] germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 81 points 10 months ago (3 children)
[–] uis@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago
[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Debian KDE has that same shortcut lmao

[–] spudwart@spudwart.com 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just tested, no it doesn’t.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] BautAufWasEuchAufbaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago

I mean, it's be funny

[–] phuntis@sopuli.xyz 5 points 10 months ago

mint better

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 44 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

By default 😹

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 40 points 10 months 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
[–] lud@lemm.ee 15 points 10 months 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@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 18 points 10 months ago

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

[–] dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

LinkedIn lunatics eating good.

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 21 points 10 months ago

it actually opens in the default browser

[–] onichama@feddit.de 19 points 10 months ago
[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months 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@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months 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'.

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 14 points 10 months ago
[–] CEbbinghaus@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wtf (you can do this with auto hotkey)

[–] tfw_no_toiletpaper@feddit.de 10 points 10 months ago

Break your fingerbones

[–] Fixbeat@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago
[–] uis@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

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