On Thu 26 Nov 2015 at 11:04:23 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Marc writes: > > Not alone, at all. I run Mate, but I boot to a console, log in there, > > and use startx to get my X session. > > So do I, and I have a decades-old muscle memory that tells me > CNTRL-ALT-F1 will get me a logged-in console. Having to reprogram that > is a (minor) nuisance. It will be a much larger nuisance for the new > users who will diligently read up on Linux before trying it (yes, there > are people who do that) and learn that CNTRL-ALT-F1 gets them to a > console and ALT-F7 gets them back to X.
For many readers (diligent or otherwise), isn't this a matter of updated documentation and re-education. There are still users (an example is in this thread) who believe ctrl-alt-backspace no longer works in Debian. It does.
