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[–] 4 points 1 month ago (7 children)
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    Learned Colemak there, liked it. Unfortunately, no support for more niche layouts, like regional variants of Colemak.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Shit, I've checked it and now I'm thinking about learning a new layout. Thanks. Like I didn't have enough things to do...

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (4 children)

    As a Colemak user I highly encourage people to learn a different layout. The thing that convinced me to Colemak was this: https://www.patrick-wied.at/projects/heatmap-keyboard/

    Paste some long text you have written and it will show you a heat map on different layouts to see how the typing of that text on that layout would have been. I loaded a large code I was working on and Colemak was mostly home row.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Not that it matters that much for touch typing but while I can't switch around keys in my external keyboard I can't change it in my laptop. Did you simply accept it that keys don't match your layout and move on?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    If you have to look at the keyboard you're doing it wrong. My main board had blank keys, my laptop has the qwerty keys, I just don't look at them

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I don't have to look at it but sometimes I had to take my laptop to Desktop support for example and they wouldn't be able to do anything with different layout. I don't have any company laptop anymore so no longer a problem. Was just wandering.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    If a support person can't switch keyboard layout, I have absolutely no confidence they can fix whatever's wrong with my machine.

    Plus I use a tiling window manager with custom shortcuts, my keyboard is a split with blank keys and I use a trackball. I think it's fair to say changing the keyboard layout would be a tiny step to overcome for anyone trying to use my machine hahahshs

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