The latest barrage of tomfoolery relating to anything but microsoft comes from the new method of switching display resolutions in Windows 7. Users can now swap between external display modes by pressing Win+P. Since this duplicates the functionality of lots and lots keyboard display switches usually something like fn+crt/lcd on the last laptop I had, microsoft now recommends mapping these to be Win+P. This is apparently horrible and inappropriate and doesn’t interoperate with other systems like Linux simly because they use a different event key. How one interoperates with a different system at a keyboard level is frankly beyond me. I guess it would be too hard for the l33t basement brigade to have to deal with a hard coded shortcut combination. They’ve got to have their ability to remap everything every which way.
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Linux worshipers aren’t really in a position to talk when even something as simple as cutting and pasting is a broken and unnecessarily complex ball’s-up on their OSes.
Win+C to copy, Win+P to paste. LOL.
Hey, I got an idea, why don’t they start to overpaint the Windows key on their keyboards to a fat penguin? I guess it’s ok to use that key then :D
Shouldn’t an OS with < 1% of the desktop market use the mechanism which the other 94% of the market uses (I'm missing OSX out here. How does OSX handle this? Is it the Linux Way?)?
Isn’t one of the main benefits of releasing a new version of the OS every second day the fact that you can update this behaviour yourself?
Don’t the loonz have anything else to worry about?
(I liked the bit about HTML standards, btw.)
> Hey, I got an idea, why don’t they start to overpaint the Windows key
You can never come up with something irrational enough that freetards wouldn’t actually have done it already. Here is a collection of proud loonboard owners:
http://tinyurl.com/348rylw
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