Most things in Linux too - all DEs I have tried have lots of keyboard shortcuts and so do a lot of applications.

The problem is that they are less discoverable and you need to make and effort to get used to using them instead of point and click.

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CalRobert 5 hours ago | parent [-]

They used to be discoverable with mnemonics (underlined letters) but those have been dead nearly thirty years…

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p-t 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

these still exist on windows though? you just hold alt

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foobarbecue 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Only works for like 20% of the menus though. I remember alt shortcuts reliably being on every single menu in early Windows (95? ME? XP?)

	▲	thewebguyd 39 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		They died when people stopped using native toolkits and started making everything an electron app. Economics be damned, if you're going to make a native app, use the OS provided toolkits.
	▲	CalRobert 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Hah, I was thinking 3.1…

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MarsIronPI 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

GTK (and QT I do believe) also support this on GNU/Linux.

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saint_yossarian 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I wouldn't say they're dead, just more hidden (e.g. GTK4 only shows them when you hold Alt). AFAIK most toolkits still support them, but app developers also have to actually define them.