Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards, though not yet.

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    10 months ago

    I don’t remember the last time I pressed the “right click” contextual menu key, so honestly it’s not like it’ll be too annoying. Unless they do replace an actually useful key, at which point I guess the people making “make Windows actually work good” apps will get to live another year.

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      10 months ago

      I pressed it like, 20 minutes ago? It’s a pretty normal part of a lot of coding workflow, not to mention browsing, accessing context menu keyboard shortcuts without having to move your hand to the mouse for one buttonpress.

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        10 months ago

        Fair enough. Alt used to be that before we decided to have a button to annoyingly pop up the menu strip. And there’s still Alt Gr for that in full sized keyboards if we want to go back that way.

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          10 months ago

          Alt Gr is something else. Non-english keyboards use it all day every day for typing their charactersets.

          It could probably replace the right OS key, though.

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      10 months ago

      I’ve never even heard of this key that you are talking about, yet it’s mentioned several times in this thread.

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          10 months ago

          thanks for the picture. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before. Just to check, I went over and looked at my wife’s work laptop and it’s not on that keyboard, but it is on her external keyboard, but not as a separate key, it’s part of the print screen button!