Whether you, like me, beleive that QAZWSX keyboards make far more sense, especially in a machine learning world, I think we all agree a layout designed to circumvent jamming typewriter keys doesn’t make sense in modern society on modern devices.

  • ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    It makes perfect sense, we’ve been using it forever, it’s the standard, almost every person that’s taken a typing class for the last 150ish years (in the English speaking world), has done so on a qwerty keyboard. Why bother changing something that just works?

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          7 months ago

          Honestly, it’s a mere shower thought, so I didn’t come prepared with notes and statistics in hand, what I will say is the amount of screen real estate is by far the worst issue.

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        7 months ago

        Sure, and we’ve tried a lot of alternative layouts over the decades.

        None of them stuck around, by and large. Some have ultra-niche followings, sure. But overall, the latin-script world has stuck to (Q|A)WERT(Y|Z). For a reason!

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        7 months ago

        True. But the rule of thumb is that in order to replace an existing working solution, a new model needs to be at least ten times better in quantifiable ways. Otherwise it’s worth staying with the established solution.

        What’s ten times better than qwerty?

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          7 months ago

          Have you ever tried to type on your phone in landscape while still seeing the content? That’s 8 times better in itself.