I don’t have one. In its place I have a meta key with a diamond design on the keycap. Why would I need a “Windows” key if I haven’t used Windows in over a decade?

This is the only thing I thank Microsoft for. Thanks for giving us this useful shortcut key. (Use it for almost every shortcut of my desktop btw)

It’s for window management related hotkeys. Obviously. All about windows. With a lowercase “w”.

Mostly the same as Windows, ie for opening the application launcher menu, as well as for a variety of global shortcuts.

Compose key

I use it as a modifier key for all of the shortcuts I create since nothing uses it by default.

Super key for DE keybinds or other global hotkeys. Nothing uses it so you don’t have to worry about collisions.

It’s my Super key. It’s used for like everything in my DE (Hyprland).

Left button for global shortcuts, right button for Compose

It opens my programs menu (or start menu to use the Windows vernacular). It’s still incredibly useful for me to have it that way

One-handed locking my PC as I leave my desk with Windows-L.

The “Windows” key is just called “Meta” key in Linux. It’s used for hotkeys, especially stuff that has to do with window management. I also set a simple press on it without other keys, which would open up “krunner” (to search or run apps).

Ritual sacrifice to the penguin god

for xmonad commands. also windows-p is dmenu.

No differently than it’s used in Windows, plus a few more key-chords that utilize it. That’s the default in GNOME and KDE at least, and probably other DEs as well.

I’m more interested in what people do with that strange menu key sitting next to my touch-starved right-CTRL. I know it’s for pulling up the context menu, but I have literally never used it for any reason. When I’m 100% keyboard, I’m probably in a terminal and it won’t do anything any way.