Personally I press Ctrl
Usually space
Same here. Whenever I need to wake up my PC I send it on a suborbital spaceflight. The forces of launch and reentry move the mouse a lot and it wakes up once I recover it from the ocean.
I move the mouse.
Team mouse wiggle!
ESC
Space
The final frontier
I pick up the mouse, hold it to my mouth and say, "Computer…?”
Not there yet, doc :p
What does it say back?
Nothing yet :-)
I believe it’s another reference being made here
Space key. That way it won’t accidentally enter an actual letter or command that could be passed to the current active application.
That’s not really much of a problem anymore these days (serious issue in WinXP era), but it’s still the safe key, so I use it.
Edit: I totally botched this. I meant Shift key. Derp.
I like ctrl as well.
Less alarming and obtrusive. To the computer? For me?
I prefer left Ctrl, but will press the right ctrl if I’m feeling wild that day.
This is a great question.
I love them question.
I’m a left CTRL grill. It doesn’t press things that might input text or navigate. It’s a humble modification-key.
Shift because it can’t trigger an action on its own.
<Tinfoil hat>
Using space, enter, control, or alt can trigger functions in windows if another key is stuck for a weird reason.
</Tinfoil hat>this is the way. or Ctrl.
Ctrl can run functions which it why it is in the list.
what list? ctrl is a modifier key
The list in my comment.
im not sifting through your comments to find this “list”. ctrl is a modifier key, doesn’t return anything and i’ve been using it for over a decade just fine.
O.o
Look at the top level comment for the list.
Idk man, I dont see a list either
Edit: ah, looks like boost is trying but failing to display the “HTML” you wrote lmao
are you not understanding that i don’t care about your list? im good.
Me too for same reason. Also I am shifting the computer out of being asleep (ok I made that up)
Spacebar
Arrow keys
I press the down arrow key!
Left for me
Space - The Final Frontier
These are the voyages…
Mouse wiggles
Shift.
They’re big enough I don’t have to aim. They’re located on both edges (at least on TKL). They do nothing on their own.
Yeah I really expected this to be the vast majority of answers, it just makes the most sense. Ctrl is too small and space will type a space into my password box that I’ll have to delete before I can unlock my screen
I always turn off my computer when I’m done. I like to get a fresh boot
+1 to linux - windows requires a reboot *by default these days to get a fresh boot, go figure.
My machine’s boot time is pretty fast because of Linux.
Wake from sleep will always be faster, regardless of the OS.
I was pointing out that a “fresh boot” on windows isn’t what people think it is any more *by default
was pointing out that a “fresh boot” on windows isn’t what people think it is any more.
You can just turn off fast startup if you care that much. Generally there isn’t a reason to do that though.
Even without fast boot, this is what Windows does. Shutdown = hibernate, restart = fresh boot 🤷♂️
Do you mean quick boot? Because that can be disabled.
That’s more taxing on the hardware over time
Edit: downvote all you want but frequent power cycling DOES reduce the life span of capacitors over time more than just leaving it in a low power or hibernation state, and also generates rapid thermal changes in components that puts more stress on them. Source: 20 years of experience in hardware repair and IT
Uuuh, I’m pretty sure 13s of CPU time is not that taxing on the hardware.
It’s not about CPU time, it’s about power cycles.
Turning computers off isn’t good for them. Turning them on isn’t good for anyone, including the computer (but especially the user who has to suffer it, and most especially the IT tech who has to suffer both).
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