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I do this, too. The first thing I do when I get a new keyboard is to remove the caps lock key. I never used it in my 20 years of PC usages and I don't get why it's still there.

Back in my CounterStrike gaming days I would also remove the Windows key because it would crash the game when accidentally pressed.

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I work about 30/70 on Mac and Windows. I have the caps lock key mapped to ctrl on Windows and cmd on Mac since they’re roughly equivalent. Makes switching my muscle memory when I switch my OS far less necessary. No more hitting ctrl-c to copy on Mac and instead sending a SIGKILL to the terminal!

On Windows, CapsLock is my Push-To-Talk key, so I remap it to F9 or something "useless" via KeyTweak.

On Linux, it's my meta/compose/whatever key, so I can write äöü on UsIntl via caps-aou ( https://github.com/winks/dotfiles/blob/master/.us-intl-germa... )

DON’T remove caps lock!!! Use it as an application switcher!

Some of my most used shortcuts:

Caps + C = Chrome

Caps + S = Spotify

Caps + A = Atom

Caps + T = Terminal

+1 for removing windows key if gaming

That's a really good idea. Most of my application switching needs are covered by the built-in Windows "Win+1 opens first icon on the taskbar, Win+2 opens the second...", but this could cover the lesser used ones like Outlook.

On Windows, Win+1 launches the first app in the taskbar, Win+2 launches the second, etc.

Ahh the good old CounterStrike quick exit! If you were lucky you could alt-tab back in, but you'd have a big mouse arrow where your reticle used to be :D

I ended up coding a utility (in VS6!) to disable the windows key when you launched the game.

Map escape key to it. Especially if you use vim.

I map ALT to CTRL and CapsLock to ALT, so I don't have to use my pinky to hot CTRL

Excel powerusers get rid of F1:

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-one-key-that-infuriates-b...

It's used by the Japanese IME on Windows: Ctrl+CapsLock - hiragana input, Alt+CapsLock - katakana input, Shift+CapsLack - alphanumeric input.

I like your typo in the last capslock, it accurately describes my capslock key ;)

Though, that actually is interesting, and you made me read up ab bit on Japanese.

My wife would kill me. She uses it to enter uppercase first letters. Just won’t (or can’t) work the shift key.

dude that windows key always messed me up, esp because my computer was a load of crap, and it took hella days to minimize/maximize the window again, usually I had to reboot the machine.

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