Worst modern keyboard layout?
- DustGod
- Yet another IBM snob
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In my opinion, this is a pretty strong candidate:
Bonus extra pain if you're Italian or use Italian layout.
Bonus extra pain if you're Italian or use Italian layout.
- depletedvespene
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That wide Q is unforgivable. Even more so than the unusable, too small three keys to the right of P and L... but not as much as the absurdly thin 1.
The arrow cluster, however...
I can't wait for the nightmares to come for both the Spanish and German versions of this atrocity, while we're at it.
The arrow cluster, however...
I can't wait for the nightmares to come for both the Spanish and German versions of this atrocity, while we're at it.
- Vecktrex
- Location: New Hampshire, US
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Given how I'm forced to use Chromebooks and I use the arrow keys a lot - the Dell Chromebook keyboard is certainly up there. The heck is it with that placement!?
The keyboard itself never fails to have my fingertips hurting by the end of the day with how hard I press the keys. Typing on buckling springs and Alps white have their drawbacks when forced to use other keyboards... I've brought in a Cherry ML 4100 some days just to have a slightly less atrocious keyboard.
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- depletedvespene
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Never mind the arrows. Is that the Power button right on top of Backspace???Vecktrex wrote: ↑Given how I'm forced to use Chromebooks and I use the arrow keys a lot - the Dell Chromebook keyboard is certainly up there. The heck is it with that placement!?
- depletedvespene
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Also, those "semifused" Enter keys have become rather common on the cheaper laptops currently for sale (although on the ISO arrangement, not ANSI). They bother me A LOT more than they should.
- Vecktrex
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I can't count the number of times that I have accidentally turned the Chromebook off because of that power button placement. I've grown used to it so I've stopped turning it off on a regular basis, but it still happens every now and then. It's infuriating to be in the middle of writing up a document, make a typo or mistake, backspa- Oh. It's off. Thanks Dell engineers!
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I really cant top these as some of the worst layouts I have seen, my sister did have a couple chrome books and I agree they have really shit layouts.
- DustGod
- Yet another IBM snob
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Another majestic feature is that the letters è, à, and ò are on the main layer, ù and ì are on the second layer.depletedvespene wrote: ↑That wide Q is unforgivable. Even more so than the unusable, too small three keys to the right of P and L... but not as much as the absurdly thin 1.
Typing on this thing is probably a nightmare.
(I didn't even bother to try.)
- depletedvespene
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But you DO have a (small) Caps key! Vecktrex doesn't even have that!
- Vecktrex
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Most of them lack function keys, which I use often. The Dell Chromebook I use dosen't even have an extra key for functions. I've devised a pretty simple, but elegant solutioncodemonkeymike wrote: ↑I really cant top these as some of the worst layouts I have seen, my sister did have a couple chrome books and I agree they have really shit layouts.
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- depletedvespene
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I posted a similar picture on reddit a few months ago... but it was a joke.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyb ... his_right/
https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyb ... his_right/
- Vecktrex
- Location: New Hampshire, US
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It was taken for the joke of it, brought it in cause my computer science teacher and I were talking about old keyboards. The Pok3r is alright, but my preferred small keyboard at the moment is a Cherry ML 4100. This is how you do a small layout.depletedvespene wrote: ↑I posted a similar picture on reddit a few months ago... but it was a joke.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyb ... his_right/
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