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Things I Do in Windows When I Forget It's Not Linux

Posted by thesilviu on · 6 comments
Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie 		Mail this story
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Many Linux users out there dual-boot with a Windows system, or they just use the two operating systems separately. An interesting thing happens when you're in Windows and you try to do something that you think is normal, but that feature doesn't exist.

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Comments (6)

mrider ·
Alt-drag and mouse middle button paste are my bugaboos.

I have installed the WIN32 port of the GNU tools (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/) in my path, so I don't get tripped up by "ls" and its ilk. For the few other things that I perennially type wrong, I create a batch file that performs the equivalent. For example I have a batch file called "clear.bat" that simply has "cls" inside.
750 ·
Firefox going from alt+number for tabs to ctrl+number.
mrider ·
@750 - I never ran into that trick. I always use ctrl + tab to cycle through. Using the tab number is at least 10 times more efficient. Thanks!
750 ·
Heh. It's so ingrained in my browser usage that i could never quite get into using Opera because it didn't support that.
gus3 ·
When did FF make that switch? My up-to-date version still uses Alt-number.
750 ·
FF has always used alt+numbers on Linux, but it uses ctrl+numbers on Windows.

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