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Jim Hall is an open source software advocate and developer, best known for usability testing in GNOME and as the founder + project coordinator of FreeDOS. At work, Jim is CEO of Hallmentum, an IT executive consulting company that provides hands-on IT Leadership training, workshops, and coaching.
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By "working on environments that charge for cpu" I assume you mean doing some sort of remote-desktop connection to a server, which is running a graphical desktop? For example, servers running in environments like AWS charge based on CPU time.
I don't run a GUI on my servers, only my laptop. It doesn't make sense (to me) to run a GUI on a server. Instead, I ssh into the server and run server commands via a terminal.
I think the only keyboard shortcuts I use on GNOME are Alt-Tab to switch windows, Alt-F4 or Ctrl-Q to close an open window, and Super (aka "Windows key") then start typing to launch a program. (Depending on the program, I may use the "standard" keyboard shortcuts to copy/cut/paste text, or open a file. But those are application keyboard shortcuts, not GNOME per se.)
For example, when I need to fire up a terminal window, I often type {Super}term{Enter} which brings up GNOME Terminal. Note that "term" is enough for GNOME to suggest "GNOME Terminal" as the matching application.
But that's habit. For other programs (especially programs I don't use all the time, like GIMP or Inkscape) it's more natural for me to use the mouse and the GNOME Applications menu.