[shen]

I like to be able to sit down at any computer and keyboard and be fully productive right away.

[quasigod]

I really don't think it effects your ability to do that. I've used a split keyboard as my primary keyboard for many years, it has not at all effected my ability to use a standard keyboard. As soon as my hands are on a typical layout the muscle memory kicks in.

[childintime]

Exactly, so do away with the zoo of national keyboards, any language should be typable on the standard QWERTY keyboard.

[Hackbraten]

QWERTY is just one national layout among many. It’s not the “standard” by any meaningful metric. Why not let people use whatever layout they like?

[numpad0]

well, that's actually how East Asian input usually work, so...

[childintime]

Right. You do it. So why can't we?

[numpad0]

Frankly, I think it is about time Latin languages should get predictive typing assist on desktop. It's probably within possibility for Mythos/Fable class LLMs to one-shot it out of a tweet-length description and full code access for existing IMEs like Mozc.