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I would argue pretty strongly with "defaults are bad"! Defaults are what you should use until you can very clearly explain why a customization is significantly

I would argue pretty strongly with "defaults are bad"! Defaults are what you should use until you can very clearly explain why a customization is significantly better (and sometimes that is the case!). It's a boring, lowerst-common-denominator attitude that goes against the things that most of us here enjoy doing, but customizations are more things to think about and maintain, and ways in which my system operates differently from other people, making it harder to give and receive help.

sergeykish 6y ago
It was not philosophical statement "all defaults are bad". I value defaults - my VIM setup become empty over years. I choose Linux distribution with defaults that match me. My setup worth a lot of trouble and costs a lot of skill. It is not universal. But some defaults are bad. QWERTY is one of them. I have no experience in Workman but I'm suspicious of design process - author penalized hand alternation and middle column. As long time Dvorak user I can't agree. Just looking at Carpalx [1] and Neo Layout [2] - vowels in one hand home row - it can be good. QWERTY derived layouts best asset is compatibility, yet ZXCV lost to ZXCMV. I can't explain that, QGMLWB makes much more sense. [1] http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?full_optimization http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?full_optimization [2] https://www.neo-layout.org/ https://www.neo-layout.org/