The Art of the Bodge: How I Made The Emoji Keyboard

With lua + autohotkey scripts in windows this is definitely possible the last time I checked. You run a luascript on another keyboard mapped to a generic key, luascript inputs that as the proper text-based language There's a tomscott video on it [this video] Checkout Teran van Hemert (linustechtips editor) for some potential ideas too. He's got crazy macro schemas, I've used a couple of his and there great. All windows based as well though. [link] Mac, I can only assume its something you would write in applescript. But maybe you find some interesting ideas there. I found something called " [link] that might be of interest to you

Yes, there is the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), which is a compatibility layer for running Linux binaries natively on Windows: [link] [link] [link] I haven't switched to Windows 10 full-time yet, but WSL works remarkably well whenever I've tried it. Cmder ( [link] ) and ConEmu ( [link] ) are pretty decent terminal emulators and Terminus ( [link] ) looks promising too. (It's hard to beat iTerm, though.) My other concern with Windows 10 was security and viruses. Last time I used Windows every day (~1999!) that was a huge concern, but it seems to be less of one now. Most seem to consider using the standard Windows-supplied virus checker just fine if you're not torrenting dodgy stuff and opening strange email attachments. The following guide (from the @SwiftOnSecurity twitter author) was helpful: [link] It contains much the same advice for Windows that you'd expect to see for keeping macOS secure too — keep stuff up-to-date, encrypt your drives, don't try to disable User Account Control or Device Guard (like Gatekeeper on Mac). I've found that chocolatey ( [link] ) is a great replacement for brew, Laragon ( [link] ) is a good alternative to Valet, and Autohotkey ( [link] ) is unrivaled for general system automation. (See Tom Scott waxing lyrical about Windows and AHK here: [this video] ).