A bit of laptop frustration
Keyboard manufacturers mostly (with some exceptions) use the QWERTY layout, and when you’re typing things, you can usually find most keys to be where you expect them to be. However, they seem to violently disagree on where to put the “\” key, and how big to make the spacebar. This can be mildly irritating.
Laptops are even worse than “standard” keyboards in the variation from one to the other.
MOST of them are fairly consistent about where they put the CTRL key, the Fn key, and the ESC key. the “Windows Key” which brings up the Start Menu is one of those “wandering” keys. So I usually don’t bother looking for the “Windows Key”, I just use CTRL-ESC to bring up the Start Menu.
Well, there’s a particularly annoying issue:
My Lenovo (Thinkpad) laptop reverses the CTRL and the Fn keys. So when using the Thinkpad, I often press Fn when I mean to press CTRL, and stuff doesn’t work as expected. This annoyed me for a long time, but I am getting over it.
It’s even worse than that:
My Dell 5150 laptop, which has the CTRL and Fn keys in their proper positions, happens to have the “Suspend” Function (activated by the Fn key) overlaid on the ESC key.
I think you can work out what happened next.