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   Mike Stone (mike@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 03-May-2025 06:14:56 JST Mike Stone

   • Kev Quirk
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   How often do you use keyboard shortcuts?

   I was reading @kev's recent blog post about his @frameworkcomputer, and he noted that one of the hardest parts of moving from a Mac to whatever he was using at the time was different keyboard shortcuts.

   I spend a LOT of time in the terminal, but when it comes to GUI tools, Copy/Cut and Paste is really the only keyboard shortcut I use. Maybe it's still early in my day and the coffee hasn't kicked in yet, but I'm struggling to think of more.

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     Chris Wiegman (chris@mastodon.chriswiegman.com)'s status on Saturday, 03-May-2025 06:14:49 JST Chris Wiegman

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     @ross Same here. I use a TON. When switching between Linux and Mac I actually spend a lot of time matching them up, as much as possible. On a daily basis, though, I probably have 50-60 I use for my normal work for everything from cut/paste to moving windows around and so much more. @mike

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     Crikey, it’s Ross (ross@crikey.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-May-2025 06:14:55 JST Crikey, it’s Ross

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     @mike All the freakin time. New doc. Save. Save As. Close window. So many in the browser: new tab, switch tabs, focus search bar, search in page. GitHub has great shortcuts. Gmail has shortcuts. IDEs/editors have tons. Loads of tools have keyboard-activated command palettes. Graphics apps have loads and are MUCH easier to use with them. Formatting shortcuts in document writing tools. Alfred/Raycast/Spotlight. Just loads. All the time. I even use a Mac app called RCmd as a keyboard app switcher.

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     Chris Wiegman (chris@mastodon.chriswiegman.com)'s status on Saturday, 03-May-2025 07:13:06 JST Chris Wiegman

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     • Crikey, it’s Ross

     @mike I use them to jump between screens, switch to 1/2 screen on my main monitor and to go to full screen on the laptop monitor. It’s worked really well for me. @ross

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     Mike Stone (mike@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 03-May-2025 07:13:07 JST Mike Stone

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     • Crikey, it’s Ross

     @chris I've seen a lot of people say they use keyboard shortcuts to move windows around, and I can't imagine moving windows like that. I mean, I get it in environments like i3 or something, but on a modern Mac/Windows/Linux not using i3 or similar window manager, it just seems entirely foreign to me.

     When you say you're using them to move windows, are you talking between desktops or in a snapped view or what?

     @ross