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by chaoticmass 3139 days ago
Keyboard layout makes it nigh unusable for my work, programming.
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mcphage 3139 days ago
That's a shame, since there are thousands of programmers who are using it for their work right now.
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recursive 3139 days ago
Why would that make it a shame? There are a lot of people using tools of all kinds that are insufficient for others.
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mcphage 3138 days ago
It’s a shame that they can’t use for their job something that many other people enjoy using for that job.
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myhf 3139 days ago
What keys do you need that aren't on a 78-key layout?
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recursive 3139 days ago
I haven't used it, but from the photo, I don't see home, end, pageup, pagedown, and backspace. (or maybe delete, but at least one of the two.)

Personally, I use all those regularly.

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myhf 3139 days ago
Yeah, you have to use the function modifier for those. Function + up-arrow = page-up is easy to learn.

Chords can remain easily learnable down to about 65 keys, but on a smaller layout (~40 keys), you have to memorize multiple layers for dozens of keys.

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chaoticmass 3138 days ago
ding ding ding

This guy gets it.

I suppose if I bit the bullet and unlearned years of muscle memory I could do without those keys, but at this point it's not worth the effort. I'll stick to ThinkPads if I need to code on a laptop.

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