i have used Windows since 95 and this is the forbidden voodoo section of the keyboard to me man
>>108951284Only one of these keys I don't use daily is Insert.
>>108951284home and end are kino
>>108951436True. That doesn't mean we could do without it. Like a specific headed screwdriver that you don't use everyday, but on the times you need it, not having it is a pain.
>>108951284iTODDLERS BTFO
>>108951436Is that a key those vim faggots use? Pretty sure they'd do something like that.
>>108951816no but shift insert in most terminal emus is paste
>>108951831Hm, it's a real thing. ctrl+insert is copy, shift+insert is paste. Works in windows, not just loonix terminal emulators.But does not work in mac (checked with non mac keyboard). Too bad. I thought I found the combo that does the same thing in all 3 operating systems.
>>108951284It enrages me too: why did they make them so small and hard to press?
>>108951816I do.And I also use it to edit tables on my wiki to preserve the layout.
This confuses and enrages the freetoddler
>>108951284It makes the Louis happy, though.
>>108951284>picrel>Doesn't Pause the current Game or Media playingYou had one job, devs
>>108951954> shifts entire industry to ARMThe incorrect assumption that all of this fantasy is based on. Hasn't happened, shows no sign of happening, and you can simply stop reading this fan fic there.Also, you forgot that servers exist. The vast majority of computers in the world are running Linux (servers, VMs, appliances, IoT devices). Laptops are a drop in the bucket, so even if they actually all did stop running Linux, it would have literally zero impact on how many computers run Linux and would continue to run Linux in the future.
>>108952441>linux is programmed on serversthe delusion is deep with freetardsyou will be purgedtick tock trannies
>>108952452It is programmed for servers.
>>108951284I can't use a machine that doesn't have dedicated page up/down and home/end keys. If you do any amount of coding or work with text and you don't depend on these keys wtf are you even doing?
>>108951284>No scroll lockFuck you to death.
>>108952452He probably needed to show a video or a powerpoint presentation, lmao.
>>108951284Just this one. Macbooks have had backlit keys for decades now.
>>108952452SAAR
>>108952784scroll lock makes a great PTT key because almost nothing uses it
>>108951284I don't get it, the insert, home, end, page up, page down, and delete keys on my keyboard work fine with my Mac. Do you think Macs don't recognize those keys or something?
>>108951284IMO everyone should adopt Vim-style navigation and these keys should extinct.
>>108951284Its so funny that these buttons confuse people, its easy:[Does nothing] [Up] [Up][Removes characters but from the wrong direction] [Down] [Down]
[Does nothing] [Up] [Up][Removes characters but from the wrong direction] [Down] [Down]
>>108951284Use case?
>>108951742bongo
>>108951284Fun fact, that Insert key doesn't work anymore in the year 2026.Literally no one supports that key anymore.
>>108957413Says the nocoder,
>>108951882That's only on laptops that need to save space. They make the buttons that nobody use small.Get a real keyboard and they will have normal size.
not my problem
>>108957413It's for copy and paste. Do people not know how to copy and paste these days?
>>108951284what do you mean, I don't have those keys on my keyboard
>>108951284Pretty much always was a waste of space and plastic.
>>108951742based
>>108952272Louis, watcha watchin on that T440P, bro?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psan7unZdNI
>>108951284They haven't included these on Thinkpads in nearly a decade and a half, doebeit.
>>10895128475% is the way. When have you ever used the Insert key?
>>108960640I've never used insert but pg up pg down home end being in that same arrangement on my Latitude E6400 makes it the best laptop I've ever typed on
>>108951436Insert nearly always used to be the hotkey for activating a game trainer (UI), now it progressed to being the toggle for the Afterburner info display
>>108951284i hate my shitty x220 with the double-height delete key
>>108960762Ehh, the sandy lelnovo chinkpads had a big of a large delet key, but at least it was in the place a delet key should be, putting it on the top right corner is some shit you would see on a garbage consoomer HP laptop.
>>108951954THANKYOUBASEDAPPLE
>>108951436Do people really not use it? I use it daily
>>108951742boost
>>108951742
>>108951954meds
>>108951284i use all of them except Insert
>>108952381I believe Stalker use it for that purpose.
>>108961874How often are you using insert over backspace/correcting things?This is a legit question: I'm honestly curious why you'd use it over a simple backspace->correction.The only time "Insert" comes into play for me is when the processor bugs out and thinks I'm in "insert" mode and I have to fucking fix it because it's overwriting what I'm trying to correct.
>>108951284out of those I only ever use delete
>>108951284I use those daily as a cope for not learning vim motions.
>>108964254not that anon but shift+insert is used for pasting text on linuxit's similar to ctrl+v but it works in terminal emulators where that has a different meaningi hate this thing about the thinkpad x220 and other newer models, insert is pointlessly moved to the side and you have to forget your muscle memory to relearn this mutilated layout just because some pig american's fat finger couldn't hit the normal-sized delete key
>>108964332I've gotten used to ctrl+shift+c and ctrl+shift+v for terminals.
>>108964332control-insert/shift-insert/shift-delete originated with Windows since you couldn't use control-key commands in command line ... though I recall having to right-click to copy/paste/delete back then.) I imagine this was later adopted by early versions of Linux since they naturally adopted all the windows conventions. But by the time I started using Linux maybe 2 decades ago, I believe command-shift-x/c/v worked in the terminal.
>>108964403* control-shift-x/c/v
>>108951284I am a senior developer and never used those buttons in all my life.I don't care or know what those do and I'm doing fine so maybe those buttons are worthless?
>>108964420Me neither but pg up pg down are amazing when tabbing through drop down menus, I remember on my niggabyte motherboard I could change settings lightning fast in the UEFI by using arrow keys and the pg up pg down.
>>108951284fn + arrows become the nav keys on macthis is also true for most other laptopsthere is NOTHING wrong with this
>>108964471Additionally, since MacOS is UNIX based,control-a/e/b/f/d/k/... also works in text boxes and the terminal.
