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Why invent a new bit of jargon then? Where does this get explained to people (bearing in mind users don't read!

The solution is to call it the Windows key as 95%+ of Ubuntu users will know it as that and have a Windows keyboard.

It's not really "invented" so much as having been called the "super" key for a long time by Unix convention, and having been adopted by Microsoft to become the Windows key where it actually showed up on consumer keyboards. If you look at a classic Solaris keyboard for example, you'll find four classic modifier keys: control, alt, meta, and super.

That doesn't matter. If you want normal people to use Ubuntu, you don't start on at them about Unix conventions.

You also can't just demand people who have been using naming conventions for twenty plus years to write off that history just because Microsoft decided to use something different.

I'm pretty sure Ubuntu adoption rate isn't affected in the least regardless of whether you call it the Super key or Windows key, or Logo key, or any of the other names it's gotten over the years. "Normal people" don't ever use that key anyways.

1. You can if they are in a very small minority.

2. It's not about adoption. It's about usability. Everyone will know what you mean if you call it 'the Windows key'. The same is not true if you call it 'the Super key'.

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