The super key

I used to have this really awesome early 2000's transparent blue plastic keyboard with all the newest media keys. The only problem was that it had 4 windows keys on it! One on either side of the spacebar. The right side of the spacebar was Alt, Windows, Context menu, CTRL. That was a bit weird but it was alright. The next placements were crazy though. Someone figured there was space for more keys right below the Delete, End and Page Down keys but I guess they couldn't really figure out what would be best for there so they put a 3rd Windows key, a 2nd Context Menu and then a 4th Windows key right there. This was pretty close to the arrow keys and if anyone remembers gaming in the early 2000's, pressing the windows key accidentlly would often just crash your game completely. If you could get back into it, it could take quite a while for it to respond again. So if you were playing something like Warcraft 2 multiplayer, that button was a fucking nightmare.

Ugh, I loved the colour of that keyboard so much I put up with all those windows keys.

edit: I can't believe I found it! I've tried searching for this keyboard a few times, but finally found proof on this site!

I wish I could change the keycap of this key on every keyboard I own.

For anyone interested, this is a tuxedo laptop

I'm petty enough to put stickers over mine.

And soon, new laptops will have a second forced stupid Microsoft key. The copilot key.

Not even joking.

GET THE SANDPAPER

Let's pray for the day that future generations will know that to be the Super key, but like the floppy disk icon for 'Save' they won't know why it is what it is.

I hate that shit so much. I don't buy keyboards with the Windows key logo on it anymore.

There are distro decals you can replace with :)

Tips for coping:

• Call it the Super key (actually the correct label I think)
• Bind window management related hotkeys to it

Ooh the key that wrecked video games for decades!

I recently bought my first mechanical keyboard, after having used my razer for 8 years, and i was looking into different keycaps, but i ended up having a hard time finding a good keycap set that is of good quality, and that i also liked in terms of colors, and has a super key or something like that. The keycaps that i ended up settling on didn't have a super key, so i just ended up putting the windows menu key on the super key, so that it atleast looks a bit more generic than the actual windows key. It's too bad they're hard to find, but i guess it makes sense since there is probably very little demand for it. Another idea is to maybe put a sticker on it or something.

I have both the windows key for meta and the apple key for alt on my keyboard which balances eachother out I think

Disabled mine a looong time ago

same…. and that stupid “copilot” button thing… (this is so useless)

i’m gonna turn it to a hotkey or something lol.

my kb came with mac keys too so i replaced win key with command, i hate it less

I don't know what I do to keyboards when I use them for a really long time, but I have the exact same laptop frame and keyboard and most modifier keys are unrecognizable and half of the WASD keys are rarely used keys because I fucked up the keycaps while cleaning and I got other keys off the keyboard in place of them. So anyways, my Windows key is abused beyond recognition and you can't tell it was a Windows key.

Yep, I have a Framework 16 that was ordered with no OS and yet it came with that key on the keyboard.

Ok now remove fast boot and TPM

Doesn't have to be

Throw away that key and get another one with a pinguin instead ;)

Cast it into the fire!

A bit of acetone will fix that.

Ah that one infinite bindings key.

could just replace it, no? Unless your keyboard is weird, the size of window key is pretty standard right?

If I cared that much, I could have bought a blank keycap for an extra buck when I bought my keyboard and banished that thing forever. (I own a Unicomp New Model M 103-key, which only has one Windows key to begin with, and the manufacturer will happily sell you blank or custom-text keycaps. Unfortunately, while they do sell a set that includes Tux keycaps, they're sized for a 104-key.)

Windows G Enable

Hmm but it doesn't force ads down your throat so can you really say it is part of Windows?

I've put a GNU sticker over one, and a Tux sticker over another. I should see if there's a Debian spiral sticker I can get (or even custom keycaps) for future keyboards.

Keyboard ?

I don't even have that. !modelm@lemmy.world users rise up!