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Being constrained to a single keyboard layout all your life sounds awfully limiting. I literally swap between completely different keyboards often (ortholinear/
by folkrav 4y ago
Being constrained to a single keyboard layout all your life sounds awfully limiting. I literally swap between completely different keyboards often (ortholinear/standard staggered/split layouts/etc). It takes some getting used to in the first couple of weeks, but once you're used to swapping layouts often, your brain just adjusts automatically.
- csdvrx 4y agoThere are some gains from being able to adjust, and some other gains for being able to use any computer with the same shortcuts and the key where I expect them to be. Personally, I prefer the gains from the latter approach: for example, I use ThinkPad bluetooth keyboards with eink tablets and Termux when I want to switch to something easier to my eyes. Keeping the same environment (ssh + tmux + bash + vim) with similar keyboards layouts means my workflow and habits have become very independent from the hardware: I only have maintain separate shortcut remapping solutions based on the OS (AutoHotKey for windows, sds100 keymapper for Android)
- folkrav 4y ago> my workflow and habits have become very independent from the hardware Isn't being constrained to a particular keyboard layout being _really_ dependent on hardware, to the contrary?
- csdvrx 4y agoThere are various thinkpads laptops, bluetooth keyboards, USB keyboards all from Lenovo so I can mix and match. There are also non Lenovo keyboard makers following the same layout like the Tex Shinobi. To me, it seems better than the alternatives of having different layouts and maintaining different set of shortcuts.