Mine is using the arrow keys to navigate typed text while writing and editing. It helps speed things up, versus having to move your hand to the mouse to navigate.

Use the Up and Down Arrows to move/jump vertically.

Left and Right Arrows to move/jump horizontally.

Combine Left or Right Arrow with Shift to be able to select text. Use Up or Down Arrow with Shift to quickly select whole/nearly whole sections of text.

Combine Control with Left/Right Arrow to jump whole words to more quickly move to where you want to type.

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    Are you serious? arrow keys instead of clicking? let’s take it further:

    shift+arrow highlights letters
    ctrl+arrow skips entire words
    ctrl+shift+arrow highlights entire words
    home/end jumps to start/end of line
    ctrl+home/end jumps to start/end of text box
    ctrl+shift+home/end jumps to start/end of textbox and highlights it
    um, do you need me to explain what ctrl+xcv do? or ctrl+zy? or ctrl+asdwerfgop?

    isn’t this just basic typing? didnt yall learn this in the 90s??? how are you all on the internet right now

    wait til you hear about how i swipe texted all this

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    Using ublock origin picker to remove everything useless. Like, Youtube suggestions, everything but download button on ddl websites, useless footers/headers on news, etc…

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      Why have I not been doing this?! Just removed the “2 years old” .world banner.

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      Just getting people to switch away from chrome to get ublock origin is a major hack all itself and completely changed the way you use the internet.

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    Wait until you learn about vim keybindings. Instead of moving your hand to the arrow keys, you can stay on the homerow and movie up down left right from there.

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      I had to read the post twice, is the arrow keys the life hack? zu the fold, }} two paragraph and 3) to jump three sentences is. And we haven’t mentioned macros yet

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    Yay, nobody said my favorite hack.

    While browsing on the web and you want to “open link into a new tab”, click using the mouse wheel like it’s a regular left or right click.

    It’s great for researching.

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    Far from most used, but very handy: ctrl+win+shift+b

    It restarts the graphic subsystem, which can help recover from situations where game crashes or similar cause visual issues.

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    • Double clicking with the mouse on a word usually selects the whole word with the space after, very nice for copy-pasting.

    • Double clicking on the selected word will sometimes select the whole line(In some applications it actually selects up to the newline marker, so it will grab multiple lines if resized smaller).

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    Actually use Home and End keys to get to the start and end of text.

    Ctrl + F for searching text. Very useful.

    Alt + Tab for window switching.

    Linux + USB drive to switch away from Windows.

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    Linux is the easier to install, less headache to run, less configuration needed, better to game on platform compared to windows.

    That’s my life hack. Get over the Stockholm syndrome.

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      less configuration needed

      Would say that GNU/Linux is actually *more * customizable than Windows which then requires more config. For a techie like me, not a downside as I can figure it out… but wouldn’t say this is true for all distros even with vanilla Gnome compared to Windows or something like ZorinOS. IMO, GNU/Linux still takes the cake on this one unfortunately.

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        Yes if you install gentoo or something. I run arch btw(endeavour) and there was no customization needed other than installing an app store of my choice.

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        Currently am on endeavour os but honestly, I started on fedora. You can get mint or ubuntu or whatever cause honestly they differences are basically about as noticable in day to day use than different editions of windows.

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    Control Backspace deletes whole words. Misspelled control? Faster to delete and retype than move my cursor around when I’m on a roll.

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    Ctrl + shift + esc brings up the Windows task manager directly instead of the menu you get when you press ctrl + alt + del

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      Just remember that ctrl+alt+del is a system level interrupt that should always work as long as the kernel is running. Ctrl+shift+esc is not, and won’t work in some situations like being used inside a fullscreen frozen program.

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      I’m kinda mind blown that this is even considered a tip. isn’t this just basic functionality of a text box???

      it’s shit like this that makes me think I do know tech a little bit, until i stumble on an actual tech community and feel like I know nothing

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    Not too sure if you can do this in windows, but I’ve enjoyed mapping alt+tab and alt+shift+tab to windows+mouse scroll

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    Linux Mint stand-in for Ctrl+Alt+Del on Windows, for when you can’t open system monitor:

    Get an interactive top you like > When PC freezes go to tty, open top, works like a task manager