What keyboard layout do you use? (sh.itjust.works)

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EDIT (2024-08-10T19:23Z): I should clarify that I am referring to the layout that you use for a physical computer keyboard, not a mobile/virtual keyboard.

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[-] toddestan@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I've been using Dvorak since the late 90's. When I type on a qwerty keyboard, it feels like my fingers have to fly all over the place to hit all the keys.

With that said, Dvorak has a few gremlins. The most annoying are the y/f keys where I have to shift my hands slightly to hit those keys. The copy/paste ctrl-c and ctrl-v keyboard shortcuts are also a lot less convenient but I just deal with it. It's also annoying having to rebind keys in pretty much every keyboard-heavy game.

I've never really thought of Colemak as a big enough improvement over Dvorak to relearn how to type on that layout, though if you're looking to switch from qwerty it may be worth considering. The Workman layout seems interesting.

[-] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

The copy/paste ctrl-c and ctrl-v keyboard shortcuts are also a lot less convenient but I just deal with it.

Thankfully, these were only shifted one to the right in Workman.

It’s also annoying having to rebind keys in pretty much every keyboard-heavy game.

Yeah I've gotten used to that. I sometimes will do a software switch in the OS back to QWERTY if I'm playing games (my layout is determined by the OS setting rather than hardware) so that I don't have to rebind, but it doesn't always seem to work. At the very least, I don't think you can do a layout switch while the game is running. Some games also appear to intercept raw keyboard codes rather than what's being sent by the OS so they ignore the software keyboard layout anyways.

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