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Agree with Workman's criticism of Colemak, that the letters D and H are placed sub-optimally. I find moving O to reduce the use of the right pinky to be pointl
by nwah1 6y ago
Agree with Workman's criticism of Colemak, that the letters D and H are placed sub-optimally.
I find moving O to reduce the use of the right pinky to be pointless, and self-contradictory since A is not moved, and remains under the left pinky.
I also find the movement of C and V to be a non-starter for me.
It looks like the Norman layout tries to address the DH issue of Colemak without messing up common shortcuts.
Although the DH issue is not enough for me to abandon Colemak. Probably because I have large-ish hands and thus don't make any wrist movement when typing HE, as the Workman author does.
Although, for those still on QWERTY, switching layouts in general is just not worth it. Remap capslock to a backspace and be done with it. And maybe get an ergonomic keyboard that doesn't mess too much with the placement of modifier keys.
- thomastjeffery 6y agoAfter years of using qwerty, I've gotten used to having 'a' on left pinky. Switching to workman has been absolutely worth it to me.
- WorldMaker 6y agoDH was an intentional compromise that Colemak took to increase QWERTY compatibility and Colemak documentation has always acknowledged that, so I respect it isn't perfect, given trade-offs, but as Workman acknowledges changing DH has a knock-on of changing a lot of things that I like about Colemak. I think Colemak also better optimized some trigraphs over Workman's digraph focus. That said, the difference between Workman/Norman/Colemak/Dvoarak is all rather "slight" compared to the respective distance between Qwerty and any of them, so some of these distinctions truly are "micro-optimizations". Most people would do better to learn any of them than keep with QWERTY whether or not they can tell which one micro-optimized better.