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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 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] unmarketableplushie@pawb.social 72 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

[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 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.

[–] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)
whispering give in, dualboot linux
[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 17 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.

Then let's hope for a better windows in Europe

[–] superb@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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

[–] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 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

[–] superb@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 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

[–] lud@lemm.ee 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.

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 year ago

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

[–] perviouslyiner@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

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

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

Debian KDE has that same shortcut lmao

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

Just tested, no it doesn’t.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 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

[–] BautAufWasEuchAufbaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 months ago

I mean, it's be funny

[–] phuntis@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

mint better

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

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

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

By default 😹

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

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

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 year ago

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

[–] dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

LinkedIn lunatics eating good.

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

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

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 year ago

it actually opens in the default browser

[–] onichama@feddit.de 19 points 1 year ago
[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 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@lemmy.world 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'.

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

Wtf (you can do this with auto hotkey)

[–] tfw_no_toiletpaper@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago

Break your fingerbones

[–] uis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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