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Great way to mess up muscle memory again. The original addition of the windows (or meta, if you're so inclined) key wasn't too bad, as most keyboards had a blan

by elric 3y ago

Great way to mess up muscle memory again. The original addition of the windows (or meta, if you're so inclined) key wasn't too bad, as most keyboards had a blank space there. But then people pushed the Fn. And the menu key. And the bottom row became a mess. With some keyboards having Fn>Ctrl>Win>Alt, while others have Ctrl>Fn>Win>Alt, or a permutation without an Fn key. None of my keyboards have a menu key. And none of my laptop keyboards have a right Win key. There really isn't any room for another garbage key there. Don't get me started on how the home/end/insert/delete/pgup/pgdown cluster got massacred and merged with the arrow keys. Some keyboard designers really have no respect for the people who actually use their products.

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pests 3y ago
Just don't buy them?
- elric 3y ago
  Thanks for that super actionable advice. /s I'm sure you've noticed that (especially) laptops have virtually no keyboard customization options. Once MS starts pushing this, every laptop peddler will be including them on every keyboard. Which means that once again, the majority of laptop keyboards will get objectively worse. It's hard enough finding a laptop with all the keys in the right place these days. Adding more pointless keys is just going to make things worse. Thank goodness for keys being reassignable in sensible operating systems. External keyboards aren't that big of an issue, I can just build my own and call it a day, but I haven't seen anyone build any custom laptop keyboards.
  - pests 3y ago
    Yeah, it sucks. But to call it not actionable advice is just hilarious. You are 100% able to not buy keyboards that don't work for you or you don't agree with. This is actionable. You might have to bring an external keyboard with you everywhere if you can't find a laptop one that works. Having values requires making sacrafices sometimes. Here is how Richard Stallman reads the web: "For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at page I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time."
Izkata 3y ago
> Don't get me started on how the home/end/insert/delete/pgup/pgdown cluster got massacred and merged with the arrow keys. Worse than that is how the arrow keys are often different sizes nowadays. That one actually influenced my current choice of laptop, all my arrow keys are the same size.

by elric 3y ago

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pests 3y ago

Just don't buy them?

elric 3y ago
Thanks for that super actionable advice. /s I'm sure you've noticed that (especially) laptops have virtually no keyboard customization options. Once MS starts pushing this, every laptop peddler will be including them on every keyboard. Which means that once again, the majority of laptop keyboards will get objectively worse. It's hard enough finding a laptop with all the keys in the right place these days. Adding more pointless keys is just going to make things worse. Thank goodness for keys being reassignable in sensible operating systems. External keyboards aren't that big of an issue, I can just build my own and call it a day, but I haven't seen anyone build any custom laptop keyboards.
- pests 3y ago
  Yeah, it sucks. But to call it not actionable advice is just hilarious. You are 100% able to not buy keyboards that don't work for you or you don't agree with. This is actionable. You might have to bring an external keyboard with you everywhere if you can't find a laptop one that works. Having values requires making sacrafices sometimes. Here is how Richard Stallman reads the web: "For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at page I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time."

Izkata 3y ago

> Don't get me started on how the home/end/insert/delete/pgup/pgdown cluster got massacred and merged with the arrow keys. Worse than that is how the arrow keys are often different sizes nowadays. That one actually influenced my current choice of laptop, all my arrow keys are the same size.