• pHr34kY@lemmy.world
      16·
      3 months ago

      It wasn’t always like this.

      I swear every version of Windows between 3.11 and XP was 100% reliable. Then it just started… slipping.

      What’s weird is that it often works on the second try.

    • Jesus_666@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      Because your company makes you use Azure Virtual Desktop to connect to a VM and AVD’s clipboard handling is as unreliable as anything else from Microsoft?

      • BenLeMan@lemmy.world
        3·
        3 months ago

        That’s a sensible theory for when this happens at work (it’s Citrix in my case).

        I’d swear it happens at home on Windows 10 as well, though. Maybe I am pressing it wrong sometimes. Either way, the meme is spot on for me.

    • Ziglin (it/they)@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      In my case it’s mostly that browsers and as such also electron Apps unfocus textboxes when the window is unfocused for seemingly no reason, sometimes without giving visual indication meaning that I need to reselect it to copy it.

    • jaschen306@sh.itjust.works
      43·
      3 months ago

      Because copy and paste started bring over formatting.

      If you do control shift V, it removes it and is much more reliable.

      • BenLeMan@lemmy.world
        9·
        3 months ago

        No that’s not what I mean (plus it doesn’t work most of the time, either). It’s the copying that often fails for me, which I only notice when I paste and realize “wait a minute, these are the previous contents of the clipboard.”

    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      it pisses me off so much. literally every month some new feature/bug is added to critical software that we use and which results in clearly quantifiable wasted time, money, and stress

      the ctrl+c issue alone has cost the company a few thousand dollars in the past year from the few cases I can think of off the top of my head. there’s a bit of software that we use where we need to enter the information that exists in one field into another field. obviously copy paste is the way to do this, it’s simple and it should work, right? except the program is built on Access and has its own problems on top of Windows fucking everything up. so what happens is people paste the previous copy into the new field instead of the newly-attemped copy. and that results in people spending hundreds of dollars to order the wrong part. bc the fucking software is garbage to interact with.

      • binarytobis@lemmy.world
        3·
        3 months ago

        I’ll never understand why successful companies can’t just keep printing money, but give in to the insatiable desire to enshittify.

  • urandom@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    Selecting text to automatically copy it, and then pasting it with the middle mouse button is clearly the superior method.

  • abominable_panda@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    3 months ago

    On linux kde you can highlight & middle click

    Edit: ive only ever used kde seriously so didn’t realise this was an x/ wayland thing.

  • n7gifmdn@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    3 months ago

    You press ctrl+c 20 times. I press ctrl +x then ctrl +v once. We are not the same

  • lobut@lemmy.ca
    3·
    3 months ago

    I don’t know what I’m doing wrong, but I seriously sometimes don’t have the “COPY” part execute sometimes … I’ve tried to do only one copy a few times and I’m like “wait, why didn’t it copy”?

    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      it’s not just you, it’s because Windows is fucking shit and just doesn’t do it sometimes

  • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    Ctrl + X a function

    Select some loose whitespace, backspace

    Ctrl + V: Gives back the whitespace and that’s all

    What the everloving fk, IDE