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Re:Why Kakoune by Conscat on Thursday September 21, 2023 @11:24AM (#37599048)
I used Dvorak for awhile. It's okay, at least better than QWERTY. But it's super old, and keyboard layouts post-Colemak take advantage of rolling bigrams and trigrams, unlike Dvorak. I use Hands Down now. https://sites.google.com/alanreiser.com/handsdown
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Re:Why Kakoune by bongobingo1 on Thursday September 21, 2023 @11:49AM (#37599452)
Its a funny thing. I swapped to Colemak, was definitely worth it. I am pretty sure there are better layouts, but also I'm so wary of falling into a sort of productivity-tool/gear-acquisition-syndrome where I can never settle on one that is "perfect".

Swapping wasn't hard, but it sure wasn't easy. Did you find going from B -> C (-> D?) easier than A -> B?

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Re:Why Kakoune by lawn on Thursday September 21, 2023 @01:45PM (#37601227)
> Swapping wasn't hard, but it sure wasn't easy. Did you find going from B -> C (-> D?) easier than A -> B?

For me, going from B -> C and C -> D (and then a long period of tweaking) was significantly easier than from A -> B.

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