I was just reading this thread… https://sh.itjust.works/post/23476261

…and it got me thinking about something that I’ve wanted for a long time. Why is it that keyboards have not evolved to have dedicated copy/paste keys left of the main board? I’d love to see an additional column of keys left of Esc->Ctrl configurable as macros at least. I do a lot of copy/paste for work. The current shortcuts arent terrible or anything but they’re not exactly comfortable. I’d rather move my whole hand to the left for a macro key than contort to hit the current shortcut.

What do you think?

  • Victor@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 months ago

    Hey, I’m also 17 years in, with Linux! I started with, I believe, Ubuntu 7.04 or 7.10, Feisty Fawn or Gutsy Gibbon, I can’t remember which.

    Which was your first distro?

    • octopus_inkEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      I had been trying it for awhile off and on, but told myself I’d jump in with two feet when I could get wifi working with no troubleshooting. As you know wifi was rough back then sometimes, and I had absolutely no capability to troubleshoot linux. But I figured as long as I had reliable wifi, everything else was just a google away. Oddly, that was not Ubuntu (I probably also tried 7.04 - I expected Ubuntu to be what did it) - it was a now defunct slackware based distro called Zenwalk.

      There needs to be a cool word for people who started with Linux in the same year lol. 🙂

      • Victor@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 months ago

        Cool stuff!

        now defunct slackware based distro called Zenwalk

        Seems to me like it’s a very much alive project still?

        There needs to be a cool word for people who started with Linux in the same year lol. 🙂

        Yeah! How about:

        1. Linlings
        2. Liblings
        3. Linwins
        4. Lwins

        This was hard…

        • octopus_inkEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          Seems to me like it’s a very much alive project still?

          It looked dead to me, but the domain still works etc so maybe I’m wrong. Last blog post looks to be a year old FWIW.

          I think I like Linwins, despite the unintentional Windows reference there. 😁

          This was hard…

          You came up with better ones than I would have though. :)