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Re:Wayfire (a Wayland compositor) 0.8.0 announcement by ammen99 on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @08:13AM (#37831080)
Wait, so you use both colemak and the normal qwerty layout and switch between them on the same keyboard?

As a vim user, I am hugely relying on muscle memory - which is why saying that bindings should vary between layouts seems really weird, as that would make muscle memory way less effective. Then again, that is my usage ..

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Re:Wayfire (a Wayland compositor) 0.8.0 announcement by malermeister on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @08:24AM (#37831160)
It's kind of hard to explain, but I think my brain doesn't go "letter -> key on keyboard", it goes "letter -> location in keyboard layout -> key on keyboard".

If the key on keyboard stays the same, even though the layout changes, it really messes with the way my brain maps from letters to muscle movements, idk if this makes sense.

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