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Does Your PC Really Need a SysRq Button Anymore?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-don't-even-use-vowels dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ever wondered what the SysRq key on your keyboard does? Lenovo has decided it's so rarely used that it has started removing the key from some new Thinkpad Edge laptops. We already know that Lenovo are something of the fastidious scientists when it comes to keyboard design. Last time they fiddled with the age-old key layout, it was after painstaking research to count exactly how many times users press the Delete and Escape keys. Now it seems another relic of computer keyboards is starting to disappear."

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  1. Re:I've used it by xtracto · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    TROLL.

    We all know that
    1. Linux does not freeze.
    2. It is not necessary to reboot a Linux system for anything.

    Get him boys!

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  2. Re:Debug key by BronsCon · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I don't know WTF alt-ctrl-del does on YOUR Linux box, but on all of mine, it brings up a menu. Killing X instead of bringing up a menu seems like harm done, to me.

    Or are you a Windows-only poser trying to act like you know WTF you're talking about?

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