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Re:Evolving a better keyboard layout by tome on Sunday January 18, 2009 @01:32PM (#439504)
No, they're for people who choose to take twenty seconds to choose a different keyboard layout in the OS control panel to save the health of their fingers, and a bit of typing time too.
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Re:Evolving a better keyboard layout by gcv on Sunday January 18, 2009 @02:44PM (#439573)
It takes more than 20 seconds to install a keyboard layout switcher on an unfamiliar Linux distribution, or, for that matter, on a poorly-set up Windows installation. Also, if you just need to type for a few minutes on someone else's machine to help out briefly, it's rude to install or switch a fundamental setting like that. "Can you help me out with this..?" "Sure, let me first install my custom keyboard layout on your box."
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Re:Evolving a better keyboard layout by tome on Sunday January 18, 2009 @03:36PM (#439629)
If you're typing for a only few minutes then type QWERTY looking at the keys.
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Re:Evolving a better keyboard layout by yters on Sunday January 18, 2009 @03:41PM (#439637)
Once you switch, your fingers should still retain some of the muscle memory. Mine have, though I can't type as quickly.
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