[Usability] Using Control-Esc and Windows keys to access the start menu

[Lennart Borgman <lennart borgman 073 student lu se>]

Hi,

I am new to this list. I have subscribed mainly because I want to become 
a GNU/Linux user.

I currently use MS Windows. No big surprise I guess, that is what the 
majority of computer users do today. I am kind of fanatic about keyboard 
usage. If I can not use the keyboard all the time I am really hesitant 
to use a program.

Now I installed Ubuntu. Quite nice installation as far as I know. 
However when the installation was finished I was not able to do 
anything. I had no mouse at all on that computer.

I tried Control-Esc and the Windows keys to access the start menu, but 
none of them worked. I would really appreciate if they do. Is there any 
reason that they should not work the same way as on MS Windows? Would 
not that attract MS Windows users?


PS: This is my second try with GNU/Linux. The last time I backed off for 
exactly the same reason. Well, and that the dual boot that came with 
Ubuntu trashed my MS Windows partition. Now at the moment I happen to 
have an old pc to spare to test GNU/Linux. So it is kind of now or never 
(in some years).