Linux 6.14 Adds Support For The Microsoft Copilot Key Found On New Laptops

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I want every distro to have a “we don’t do that here” popup when that key is pressed.
- Or you know, map it to something useful?
  
  “Pressing this button has been reported to the system administrator”
nice, a dedicated Krunner button!
Isn't there already a windows key? I remember when they added that with windows 95
- Yes, but this replaces the right control key iirc
  
  ahh, classic micro$quash. "We're making everything worse! Now pay us."
- This is the clippy key
Guess the Hyper key is due to make a comeback!
Huh, I guess I figured it would just work. When I nuked copilot forcibly from windows it turned the key back into your standard menu key.
What we need is support for the iopeners pizza key.
Nice, more AI bullshit
- On Microsoft's part, I guess. The support this article is talking about is supporting the ability to map the 'Copilot' key to whatever you want.
  
  :) I'm lucky enough to have bought my Windows computer and switched to Linux before the Copilot key. But if I got it now, it would feel really good switching to Linux to make the "fuck you I don't want to use this and you wasted my keyboard space with it anyways" key useful again.
- Yeah but it's a good thing to be able to use that hardware with sane software (Linux)

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