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by WD-42 4 days ago
Pretending like the person I'm responding to isn't being willfully ignorant isn't helping. It's pretty simple to guess what "super key" means just from context, if not, it's a very quick (in the op's case) llm query away. Let's be real here.
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musictubes 4 days ago
As someone whose last interaction with Windows was 98 and have been on Mac ever since I also had no idea what a super key was. Also Googled “Windows key” and realized I had seen it before in pictures but never thought about it.

I used some sort of *nix on a VAX terminal in college and ran SUSE on my machine once I realized I hated Windows 98 but all of that is ancient history at this point lol. All of that is to say that it is possible for someone to be peripherally interested in this topic and not be aware of what a super key would be even in context. Maybe someone that uses Windows could pick up on it earlier but I certainly didn’t:)

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bigyabai 3 days ago
It helps that the Super key's glyph is identical to the greyscale four-pane window icon that Microsoft uses: https://www.gnome.org/

Most people that look down at their keyboard will be able to visually identify that icon out of the bunch, methinks.

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lukan 4 days ago
I am real. I used computers for a long time. Also linux, but not exclusivly.

Guess what, I also only learned recently (some years now I think) after making it mire default, that on linux the windows key is called super key. And the person you insulted clarified he did not use linux at all.

So, how should he have known, despite working with computer extensivly?

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