One thing Windows did right is keyboard based navigation. Most of the general public does not know or appreciate how close to productivity nirvana the alt key brings you.

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bayindirh 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Same is possible in KDE. Combined with hot corners, you can become "blazingly fast".

Once a colleague seeing me work looked at my screen, lifted his head and pointed to my colleague saying "Have you seen how this guy work, he's a maniac!".

Mastering the tool you have always brings speed and smoothness into your process, one step at a time.

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Geezus_42 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't feel like I've had much issue with keyboard driven workflows on any OS.

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bayindirh 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Any app can has its extensive set of keyboard shortcuts, but when it comes to DE itself, it's not always the case.

Microsoft has Meta+ and Alt+ combinations dime a dozen, and it's consistent across versions. KDE has extensive programmability which allows you to design you own. Both allows you to pack so many features into a small number of keys and work across applications or in general without thinking.

A terminal? It appears. A window? You call it without thinking. Ran out of space, a new desktop is just an instinct...

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spockz an hour ago | parent [-]

On macOS you can also assign a keyboard shortcut to any tool menu the app exposes. This works without the app knowing about it.

	▲	bayindirh 19 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I'm slightly aware of that, but I'm not sure how this works in real life where almost half of the "native" applications in macOS are Electron apps.
	▲	prodigycorp an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I’m a Mac dude through and through but its shortcuts don’t hold a candle to windows alt shortcuts. Alt shortcuts are progressively revealed to the user and the entire UI is operable without having to memorize a series of hand cramping shortcuts.

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BoxwoodSeed 25 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

It's alright, but a step down from tiling window managers that you can use on Linux.