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When I finished installing SUSE on my computer I found it strange that the Windows Key did not seem to do anything. Ideally I thought that it should pop up the K menu (the main application menu) much in the way that Windows does. Failing that, I would have expected it to do something useful. It turns out that you have to dig into the configuration and explicitly enable this key so that it can be used throughout KDE. I found this out from this article about enabling the Windows Key.

I guess that this is part of the anti-Microsoft sentiment that is behind most of Linux and GNU software but it just seem silly to leave a valid and well placed key unused. For me it just seem practical to enable this key. I guess this is what you get when you look at an operating system in a fanatical way.