I dont know enough about electronics to say for certain but I think Holding down the key doesn’t work from a technical standpoint. If you press it down before the relevant stage of the boot process is running there might not actually run any code to even detect the key press. And holding down a key doesn’t continuously send new keypresses. Only “key down” and “key released”.
But 100% agree on the standardised key. And it should be something that ia on every keyboard and not behind an alternative funktion! No alt/shift/fn. Just make it enter or something!
Keyboards don’t run like that. The keyboard itself does not know when a key is pressed. They poll the keys and send a message when they find one that is depressed
The keys should be standard and work if just held down.
I dont know enough about electronics to say for certain but I think Holding down the key doesn’t work from a technical standpoint. If you press it down before the relevant stage of the boot process is running there might not actually run any code to even detect the key press. And holding down a key doesn’t continuously send new keypresses. Only “key down” and “key released”.
But 100% agree on the standardised key. And it should be something that ia on every keyboard and not behind an alternative funktion! No alt/shift/fn. Just make it enter or something!
I think I have seen it work on several machines, but stopped doing it because often it does not
Keyboards don’t run like that. The keyboard itself does not know when a key is pressed. They poll the keys and send a message when they find one that is depressed
nah this is how ps2 works
PS2 is hardly used in consumer products these days.
aren’t most internal laptop keyboards ps2?
That’s actually a good point. I don’t know. I only know of one example, where I it was USB.
yep, on ps2 keyboards this is the case
Actually, holding down the key does work!
They do!
On some machines.
Wait, what brands don’t support holding down the key? /gen