Microsoft isn't "creating" a copilot key, they're repurposing an existing key that almost no one uses called the menu or applications key. It's the one just to the left of the Ctrl key on the right side of the keyboard. Whether anyone actually starts using the key remains to be seen...
My super key is between the left [Ctrl] and [Alt] keys, and between the same on the right (where yours is) my keyboard has an [Fn] (Function) key which has blue print, and when pressed it does whatever functions all of the keys do that have additional blue print on them, like all of the "F#" keys and a few others. In Linux we call it the super key, and it can be on the left or the right, but it is actually called "the windows key" and Windows introduced it a long time ago, and Keyboard companies added it, and I have to believe M$ strong armed them into it. You may have noticed that most (almost all accept Macintosh computers) keyboards have the Windows logo on it.
@MichaelDustter For me too, but I think it would be superere with a little tux on it 😅and a constant reminder of one of my most hated🤬 companies I stopped using 14 years ago!!🥳
@MichaelDustter I like mechanical keyboards but also ergonomic ones which few if any are, and found a Logitech one that is not fully mechanical but does have a firm resistance and clicky feel. I have an EMU 0404 professional sound card which when Creative labs bought them, they developed the "Audigy" from it's tech, and also just dropped driver support, so I got it while on Windows 95 or 98, and it lost support in XP but still worked without, but no longer with Win7, with no workaround or hacker made drivers. As soon as I switched which came with a hardware compatibility check to make sure I even can install Linux and have it all work, or at least the most important stuff, and it was! Someone in Linuxland reverse engineered one based on an Audigy driver, but to this day no one has figured out the built in Digital effects processor which the Audigy had a stripped down and too different version of, but now I have more than enough processing power and RAM to handle over 100 plugin software effects up the wazoo, whereas the 486 I had it on first would have struggled with it, and EMU made it so it would take the burden off of the processor and RAM for that very reason. And now I can run it, my Behringer UMC204HD, and the built in one simultaneously for 10 inputs and outputs🤯, which Windows couldn't do without some proprietary software that wasn't cheap. When I ditched Windows I literally did the part of Martin Luther King Jr's end to segregation speech: FREE AT LAST, FREEEEEEE AT LAST" every time I showed my new OS to my geek friends still using Windows, and not long after had Windows 10 trying to force it on them!🤣 Yep, I love Linux for many good reasons!🥳🐧
they are repurposing the location, not the key. they are creating a new key that has a different function. For example, some people have ALT in a different location but that doesnt change the key itself.
Well, that will never happen in my case! I quit Windows, actually all of Microsoft 14 years ago! I even closed my Hotmail email account I got not a week after Hotmail was released!
I suspect Jordan Keyes also had some influence on the naming since he also had a show called This Week in Linux, though he moved on to other topics some years ago.
I say Microsoft should have no right whatsoever to have a Windows keyboard layout in the first place, and keyboard MFG's should tell them to F*ck off!! I can't stand that I have a "Windows key" with their crappy logo on it! If anything it should just have a representation of a start menu, or keyboards should come with one for at least the most popular OS's or make them available for purchase. That way I could have a tux on it which I would love!
I agree that the windows key is annoying but sadly it’s likely to not be addressed by the big companies because they probably get some kind of deal for doing it. 🤷♂️
@@michael_tunnell I suspected that much, and it's all to apparent that Microsoft has ways to make other companies dance to their tune and not just work for them, but probably against the competition in some cases. It's hard to believe that so many companies don't make Linux versions of their apps. How much can it cost to do so especially with companies like Adobe, where they have to know Linux users want it badly and that there are still enough users to not do so at a loss?
Hello everybody, I post again in this video hoping for answers or advice for my Lenovo L520. I am looking for a way to install Linux on a Lenovo L520 i5 with Intel HD Graphics. I can start a live distro like Mint Cinnamon 21.1 in compatibility mode but after I click Install and Boot, I have a black screen. Any idea what to look at ? I tried to set up Grub with a different option found on a forum ( e.g. GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet noapic acpi=off " ) but it wasn't successful. Any idea ? Forum ? Successful recipe ? A distro known to work well with that hardware ? Thanks
This is a pretty old laptop so it depends on the specs that you have which distro should be considered. Please provide more details about the specs like which i5 (there were 3 different i5 models), also provide how much RAM. I would probably go with Kubuntu or Ubuntu Budgie instead unless the RAM is very underpowered and then probably Lubuntu.
Hello Michael, thanks for the follow up. I re-installed Mint Cinnamon 21. I now have the menu and i can press c to get into the Grub prompt. But booting stil stays on black screen with the underscore flashing in the top corner. I'll look at the spec of the specific model of L520. Thanks, it is not my first Linux install but the first time I am strugling, your support is appreciated.
Hello Michael, thanks for the follow up. I re-installed Mint Cinnamon 21. I now have the menu and i can press c to get into the Grub prompt. But booting stil stays on black screen with the underscore flashing in the top corner. I'll look at the spec of the specific model of L520. Thanks, it is not my first Linux install but the first time I am strugling, your support is appreciated.
I hate fwupd with passion. It constantly tries to update Secure Boot dbx and fails. Also, there is absolutely no reason to update dbx. Most Linux/Windows dualbooters are forced to enable Secure Boot (as some apps on Windows now require Secure Boot to be enabled). If there are exploits, it's good for us. Why arbitrarily limit what can be booted on your own computer, just because Microsoft said so?
This show is not 100% exclusive to open source, Volkswagen uses Linux in their cars as do most car infotainment systems so clearly it’s relevant. Also I find AI news fascinating so I’ll cover it because I want to.
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Linux Mint 21.3 „Virginia“ - Upgrade from installed 21.2 also possible since yesterday
Microsoft isn't "creating" a copilot key, they're repurposing an existing key that almost no one uses called the menu or applications key. It's the one just to the left of the Ctrl key on the right side of the keyboard. Whether anyone actually starts using the key remains to be seen...
How are we supposed to open the context menu via the keyboard without it, though?
My super key is between the left [Ctrl] and [Alt] keys, and between the same on the right (where yours is) my keyboard has an [Fn] (Function) key which has blue print, and when pressed it does whatever functions all of the keys do that have additional blue print on them, like all of the "F#" keys and a few others.
In Linux we call it the super key, and it can be on the left or the right, but it is actually called "the windows key" and Windows introduced it a long time ago, and Keyboard companies added it, and I have to believe M$ strong armed them into it. You may have noticed that most (almost all accept Macintosh computers) keyboards have the Windows logo on it.
@MichaelDustter For me too, but I think it would be superere with a little tux on it 😅and a constant reminder of one of my most hated🤬 companies I stopped using 14 years ago!!🥳
@MichaelDustter I like mechanical keyboards but also ergonomic ones which few if any are, and found a Logitech one that is not fully mechanical but does have a firm resistance and clicky feel.
I have an EMU 0404 professional sound card which when Creative labs bought them, they developed the "Audigy" from it's tech, and also just dropped driver support, so I got it while on Windows 95 or 98, and it lost support in XP but still worked without, but no longer with Win7, with no workaround or hacker made drivers. As soon as I switched which came with a hardware compatibility check to make sure I even can install Linux and have it all work, or at least the most important stuff, and it was! Someone in Linuxland reverse engineered one based on an Audigy driver, but to this day no one has figured out the built in Digital effects processor which the Audigy had a stripped down and too different version of, but now I have more than enough processing power and RAM to handle over 100 plugin software effects up the wazoo, whereas the 486 I had it on first would have struggled with it, and EMU made it so it would take the burden off of the processor and RAM for that very reason. And now I can run it, my Behringer UMC204HD, and the built in one simultaneously for 10 inputs and outputs🤯, which Windows couldn't do without some proprietary software that wasn't cheap.
When I ditched Windows I literally did the part of Martin Luther King Jr's end to segregation speech: FREE AT LAST, FREEEEEEE AT LAST" every time I showed my new OS to my geek friends still using Windows, and not long after had Windows 10 trying to force it on them!🤣
Yep, I love Linux for many good reasons!🥳🐧
they are repurposing the location, not the key. they are creating a new key that has a different function. For example, some people have ALT in a different location but that doesnt change the key itself.
Another great Linux Gnews video, Michael. Thank you!
Linuz 6.7 is my favorite OS 😍
lol I dont know what you are referring to . . . never happened, nothing to see here
keep up the cool videos, i am a new subscriber btw
127th! Well I guess I needed a reason to write a comment, just wanted to mention I like your videos. Have a nice new year :)
The AI button is nothing more than Microsoft pushing Bing on us😢
Well, that will never happen in my case! I quit Windows, actually all of Microsoft 14 years ago! I even closed my Hotmail email account I got not a week after Hotmail was released!
I think you've made a misprint in the title
lol I dont know what you are referring to . . . never happened, nothing to see here
4:10 snap needs to allow community servers and themes to actually work with snaps for me to even think of installing it.
Closed Captions got FWUPD right!
I manually fixed that, as well as many other things 😎👍
FYI, the kodi example is about the (old) app icon having a drop shadow not the screenshots
I suspect Jordan Keyes also had some influence on the naming since he also had a show called This Week in Linux, though he moved on to other topics some years ago.
He probably did yes
I say Microsoft should have no right whatsoever to have a Windows keyboard layout in the first place, and keyboard MFG's should tell them to F*ck off!! I can't stand that I have a "Windows key" with their crappy logo on it! If anything it should just have a representation of a start menu, or keyboards should come with one for at least the most popular OS's or make them available for purchase. That way I could have a tux on it which I would love!
I agree that the windows key is annoying but sadly it’s likely to not be addressed by the big companies because they probably get some kind of deal for doing it. 🤷♂️
@@michael_tunnell I suspected that much, and it's all to apparent that Microsoft has ways to make other companies dance to their tune and not just work for them, but probably against the competition in some cases. It's hard to believe that so many companies don't make Linux versions of their apps. How much can it cost to do so especially with companies like Adobe, where they have to know Linux users want it badly and that there are still enough users to not do so at a loss?
👍Thanks again Michael.
@17:04 you said: "remember to like that smash button" was that intentional?
You must be new around here - welcome! (And don't forget to like that smash button)
All the other RUclipsrs who say "Smash that like button" have it bass ackwards. Michael is the only one who gets it right.
@Loading yes it’s intentional 😄
@Mackenway & @davey820051 LOL! 🤣
What is Linuz ?
lol I dont know what you are referring to . . . never happened, nothing to see here
cover floorp browser, thanks
Hello everybody, I post again in this video hoping for answers or advice for my Lenovo L520.
I am looking for a way to install Linux on a Lenovo L520 i5 with Intel HD Graphics. I can start a live distro like Mint Cinnamon 21.1 in compatibility mode but after I click Install and Boot, I have a black screen. Any idea what to look at ? I tried to set up Grub with a different option found on a forum ( e.g. GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet noapic acpi=off " ) but it wasn't successful.
Any idea ? Forum ? Successful recipe ? A distro known to work well with that hardware ?
Thanks
This is a pretty old laptop so it depends on the specs that you have which distro should be considered. Please provide more details about the specs like which i5 (there were 3 different i5 models), also provide how much RAM.
I would probably go with Kubuntu or Ubuntu Budgie instead unless the RAM is very underpowered and then probably Lubuntu.
Hello Michael, thanks for the follow up. I re-installed Mint Cinnamon 21. I now have the menu and i can press c to get into the Grub prompt. But booting stil stays on black screen with the underscore flashing in the top corner. I'll look at the spec of the specific model of L520. Thanks, it is not my first Linux install but the first time I am strugling, your support is appreciated.
Hello Michael, thanks for the follow up. I re-installed Mint Cinnamon 21. I now have the menu and i can press c to get into the Grub prompt. But booting stil stays on black screen with the underscore flashing in the top corner. I'll look at the spec of the specific model of L520. Thanks, it is not my first Linux install but the first time I am strugling, your support is appreciated.
So what I got from Lenovo Website is :
2nd generation Intel Core i5-2520M Processor(2.50 GHz 3 MB) - 2x 2 GB PC3-10600 - Intel Graphics 3000 - Monitor 15.6 1366x768 - Bluetooth Version 3.0; Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 (2x2 AGN 300Mbps)
it has been manufactured in May 2012
I hate fwupd with passion. It constantly tries to update Secure Boot dbx and fails.
Also, there is absolutely no reason to update dbx. Most Linux/Windows dualbooters are forced to enable Secure Boot (as some apps on Windows now require Secure Boot to be enabled). If there are exploits, it's good for us. Why arbitrarily limit what can be booted on your own computer, just because Microsoft said so?
How is the ChatGPT in Volkswagen cars open source news?
This show is not 100% exclusive to open source, Volkswagen uses Linux in their cars as do most car infotainment systems so clearly it’s relevant. Also I find AI news fascinating so I’ll cover it because I want to.