Pretty much in the title, the only time I interact with the windows key in its standard operating condition is getting pissed off that the start menu opened. I use it in other capacities such as taking screen shots and other key commands but I got to wondering if anyone, ever actually uses it to access the start menu.

Also if anyone comes here and posts “dOnT uSe wINdoWs,” you really are cute.

Edit: I am more curious if anyone actually gets utility out of its default behavior (opening the start menu). I am aware that it is used in a number of key commands (although some are new to me).

  • Kethal@lemmy.world
    8·
    3 months ago

    The Windows start menu is inexplicably a huge mess. Like all MS products, they cram their interface with as much as possible.

    • rivalary@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      I preferred their nested menus to what is there now, though I started using search as soon as it became a thing (Windows 7?). They should have really implemented categories (like in Linux) early on rather than having every suite have it’s own sub-menu in the Start Menu.

      • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
        2·
        3 months ago

        You can do that yourself, since Chicago first debuted in ~1994.

        I don’t want my OS categorizing stuff for me.

        My start menu is categorized on the root (where “pinned” items go), and I leave the rest of the menu alone.

        • rivalary@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          The maintainer of the application chooses the categorie(s) but manually organizing things as an end user… is kinda dumb. Maybe I don’t understand your workflow (or why the Start Menu is the way it is now with all programs barfed into one list, I figured it was for touch devices). It doesn’t really matter, though, because search is used primarily now, anyways. Forgetting the name of the application is the only reason I can see digging through the Start Menu now.