I couldn't stand this layout. The entire change was driven by the soft-key function row, which was pretty awful. The 1st gen X1 Carbon had a fully functional ke

I couldn't stand this layout. The entire change was driven by the soft-key function row, which was pretty awful. The 1st gen X1 Carbon had a fully functional keyboard with no need for soft keys, and it worked perfectly, so the frustration was compounded by feeling like they tried to fix something that wasn't broken. The soft keys forced the home/end keys out, as well as the Escape key and the Delete key. Home/end landed on CapsLock, which was then relegated to a double-tap of the shift key. The double-tab feature was so sensitive that it could be activated just by typing normally, which suddenly would activate capslock. To add to the confusion, the Escape key landed on the ~ key's location, which then had to be relocated to the right-hand windows key placement. The delete key was jammed in by cutting the Backspace key in half and putting it there. It took weeks of pure frustration and anger for me to even begin getting used to all this. The experience permanently turned me against soft touch bars on the function key row.