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Re: Windows on ARM, how fast it can be implemented?

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Sven Barth
Marco van de Voort wrote
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Does not seem to work for Thunderbird... ^^

But I never used the startmenu much in the first place, and I consider it an anti RSI measure (if you miss the startmenu in the default location, you probably use the mouse too much :-)

For me it's less the location of the startmenu (I'm mostly using the keyboard for startmenu navigation btw.), but the fact that the Windows Key opens that fullscreen abomination of that "metro desktop" instead of a little window in some corner.

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Sven

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Marco van de Voort
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In our previous episode, Sven Barth said:

> (reply-to set to fpc-other since this is getting off-topic) Does not seem to work for Thunderbird... ^^

Use a decent mailclient, like ELM :-)

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> But I never used the startmenu much in the first place, and I consider it an > anti RSI measure (if you miss the startmenu in the default location, you > probably use the mouse too much :-) > For me it's less the location of the startmenu (I'm mostly using the keyboard for startmenu navigation btw.), but the fact that the Windows Key opens that fullscreen abomination of that "metro desktop" instead of a little window in some corner.

I had that in the beginning too, and my usage pattern was the same too. Don't get me wrong, I still think it is all annoying, but there are workarounds to make it more bearable.

I work with disappearing menu-bar, and I used windows key to pop it up. In most cases you can use win-T now, but that is less comfortable when standing next to a machine with the kbd in your hands.

Most manual navigation in the start menu I did to get to the control panel, but I now get there via the new key combo win-I [enter]. I miss however configuring the startmenu to auto-expand network connections and have an easy kbd way to browse to them.

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Marco van de Voort
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In our previous episode, Marco van de Voort said:

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> > But I never used the startmenu much in the first place, and I consider it an > > anti RSI measure (if you miss the startmenu in the default location, you > > probably use the mouse too much :-) > > > For me it's less the location of the startmenu (I'm mostly using the > keyboard for startmenu navigation btw.), but the fact that the Windows > Key opens that fullscreen abomination of that "metro desktop" instead of > a little window in some corner. I had that in the beginning too, and my usage pattern was the same too. Don't get me wrong, I still think it is all annoying, but there are workarounds to make it more bearable.

Another fun fact, I was wondering why occasionally my win8 PC would wakeup during the night. Turns out it auto-wakes to do "maintenance", and the option to enable it is not in power options, but 3 levels deep in "action center". It probably assumes that all PCs are configured to go to sleep after a while, but since the settings are not next to eachother, if you disable auto-hibernation, your machine will just wake up and stay on forever.

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