Whether you, like me, beleive that QAZWSX keyboards make far more sense, especially in a machine learning world, I think we all agree a layout designed to circumvent jamming typewriter keys doesn’t make sense in modern society on modern devices.

    • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Sure, and we’ve tried a lot of alternative layouts over the decades.

      None of them stuck around, by and large. Some have ultra-niche followings, sure. But overall, the latin-script world has stuck to (Q|A)WERT(Y|Z). For a reason!

    • XTL@sopuli.xyz
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      6 months ago

      True. But the rule of thumb is that in order to replace an existing working solution, a new model needs to be at least ten times better in quantifiable ways. Otherwise it’s worth staying with the established solution.

      What’s ten times better than qwerty?