A Keyboard with Blank Keycaps Made Me an Expert Typist

Re:A Keyboard with Blank Keycaps Made Me an Expert Typist by spanhandler on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @04:42PM (#24136704)

> They managed to design for a relatively uncommon use case (QWERTY typists who type in Spanish and French), and basically got it right the first time.

Kinda, but you do need those to type fluently in English, too, which isn't an uncommon use case for a computer sold in an English-speaking country. We have tons of accented loan words from French and Spanish, among other European languages. We also need a lot more punctuation and "special characters" than any other default English layout I know of makes available.

It is entirely a joke that Apple's got the only OS, in the year 2020, that does a good job at the task of composing text in English, out of the box and without compromising other use cases. I don't even know of alternate layouts that are anywhere near as good on another OS. What the actual hell is up with that?

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Re:A Keyboard with Blank Keycaps Made Me an Expert Typist by Symbiote on Thursday August 13, 2020 @10:52AM (#24143905)

Linux (and predecessors) have supported a Compose key for decades, which is more discoverable than hidden combinations like Option+e. (Compose e ' → é. The arrow is Compose - >.)

But what's the significant advantage of Mac OS's layout vs e.g. Microsoft Windows US International layout?

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