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Ah, that must be the reason. I wouldn't expect it to be different either, but I guess it must be.
Do you have "sticky keys?" I assume it's in Linux as well (though I haven't yet accidentally activated it), but Windows has a feature where you press shift five times I think and it activates "sticky keys" mode, where it acts like a press of a modifier key is held instead. Thats for people who can't hold shift (or ctrl/alt) and press other keys at the same time, for whatever reason.
That makes sense, I've written scripts with similar effects for my mouse because my finger got tired holding down the button in some videogame for a prolonged amount of time.