• Nibodhika@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    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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      9 days ago

      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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        9 days ago

        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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          9 days ago

          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.