Mine is using the arrow keys to navigate typed text while writing and editing. It helps speed things up, versus having to move your hand to the mouse to navigate.
Use the Up and Down Arrows to move/jump vertically.
Left and Right Arrows to move/jump horizontally.
Combine Left or Right Arrow with Shift to be able to select text. Use Up or Down Arrow with Shift to quickly select whole/nearly whole sections of text.
Combine Control with Left/Right Arrow to jump whole words to more quickly move to where you want to type.
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Wait until you learn about vim keybindings. Instead of moving your hand to the arrow keys, you can stay on the homerow and movie up down left right from there.
Using ublock origin picker to remove everything useless. Like, Youtube suggestions, everything but download button on ddl websites, useless footers/headers on news, etc…
Just getting people to switch away from chrome to get ublock origin is a major hack all itself and completely changed the way you use the internet.
Yay, nobody said my favorite hack.
While browsing on the web and you want to “open link into a new tab”, click using the mouse wheel like it’s a regular left or right click.
It’s great for researching.
there’s a extension to do this with the right click button instead too
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Double clicking with the mouse on a word usually selects the whole word with the space after, very nice for copy-pasting.
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Double clicking on the selected word will sometimes select the whole line(In some applications it actually selects up to the newline marker, so it will grab multiple lines if resized smaller).
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Far from most used, but very handy: ctrl+win+shift+b
It restarts the graphic subsystem, which can help recover from situations where game crashes or similar cause visual issues.
Actually use Home and End keys to get to the start and end of text.
Ctrl + F for searching text. Very useful.
Alt + Tab for window switching.
Linux + USB drive to switch away from Windows.
I can’t live without my home, end, pagedown and pageup keys
Control Backspace deletes whole words. Misspelled control? Faster to delete and retype than move my cursor around when I’m on a roll.
Linux is the easier to install, less headache to run, less configuration needed, better to game on platform compared to windows.
That’s my life hack. Get over the Stockholm syndrome.
less configuration needed
Would say that GNU/Linux is actually *more * customizable than Windows which then requires more config. For a techie like me, not a downside as I can figure it out… but wouldn’t say this is true for all distros even with vanilla Gnome compared to Windows or something like ZorinOS. IMO, GNU/Linux still takes the cake on this one unfortunately.
Yes if you install gentoo or something. I run arch btw(endeavour) and there was no customization needed other than installing an app store of my choice.
What distribution do you use?
Currently am on endeavour os but honestly, I started on fedora. You can get mint or ubuntu or whatever cause honestly they differences are basically about as noticable in day to day use than different editions of windows.
What distribution do you use?
Recommend CachyOS, not US centered and pretty stable.
Ctrl + shift + esc brings up the Windows task manager directly instead of the menu you get when you press ctrl + alt + del
Just remember that ctrl+alt+del is a system level interrupt that should always work as long as the kernel is running. Ctrl+shift+esc is not, and won’t work in some situations like being used inside a fullscreen frozen program.
when my computer pisses me off i like to smash it
Oh kid, I do this for over forty years now.
I’m sitting up on the upper balcony tabbing between two two plebs.
Not too sure if you can do this in windows, but I’ve enjoyed mapping alt+tab and alt+shift+tab to windows+mouse scroll
Linux Mint stand-in for Ctrl+Alt+Del on Windows, for when you can’t open system monitor:
Get an interactive top you like > When PC freezes go to tty, open top, works like a task manager
if you’re concerned about how much you need to move your hand, then you’ll probably love (neo)vim
Ctrl+r on bash and zsh (possibly others) for quickly recalling anything you’ve typed before
This is a huge one for me. For those who don’t know, this brings up the rev-i-search utility which allows cycling from most recent to oldest commands executed. It also supports partial finds so if you did ‘cd’ it would cycle the most recent change directory commands.
The forward search (in case you’re somewhere in the history stack) is ctrl+s and operates the same except crawls the command history forwards.
I use these constantly in my normal workflow and they save a ton of time.
