[GTALUG] Was Re: Heads up: Ubuntu 21.10 kills your desktop icons now - keyboards

[Don Tai]

"The last one is a Kensington but the last 3 M$ and this Kensington - - -
they're real cheap POS! Its gotten to where 24 months is a great lifetime
for a keyboard. "

This is the trend for almost everything, and has been for quite a number of
years. Our throwaway society seems to want this quality level of products.

On Thu, 21 Oct 2021 at 07:08, o1bigtenor via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

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> On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 6:59 PM Stewart C. Russell via talk <
> talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
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>> On 2021-10-20 11:03, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
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> snip
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>> I've just switched to xubuntu. I think it uses XFCE. So far (10 minutes
>> in) it mostly works. It does fail on one thing, though:
>>
>> > Let me alt+tab between the windows.
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>> I can't seem to do that. And I can't cycle between workspaces, either. I
>> hope it's not because I'm using an Apple keyboard. It's the least
>> disappointing keyboard I've tried, but Linux barely understands it.
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> Is it maybe not so much that Linux doesn't understand the keyboards but
> that the keyboard manufacturers are making such junk that Linux just
> struggles to understand the signals?
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> I've been using ergonomic keyboards for some about 20 years.
> Started with a logitech (IIRC) and then was forced to move to the M$ 4000
> as they were the only game left in the 'reasonable' market. The last one is
> a Kensington but the last 3 M$ and this Kensington - - - they're real cheap
> POS! Its gotten to where 24 months is a great lifetime for a keyboard.
>
> I'm a fairly quick touch typist but I'm also seriously multi-lingual so a
> good keyboard is quite important. Crap - - - the old manual typewriters
> were far easier on me than these new items!!
>
> To get something that is going to last a bit better - - - is the only
> option the quite pricey items where they use the mechanical switches?
> Suggestions - - - -
>
> TIA
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