extremely happy with my new custom @tuxedocomputers laptop!

Running @EndeavourOS as usual!

Keyboard layout is IT-US Colemak-DH ISO Wide!

How many words can you type using only characters on the home row of your keyboard using different layouts? Using /usr/share/dict/words on my machine:

% cd /usr/share/dict
% wc -l words
104334 words

% grep -Pci "^[asdfghjkl;-]+$" words #Qwerty
188

% grep -Pci "^[anisfdthor]+$" words #Maltron
1276

% grep -Pci "^[aoeuidhtns-]+$" words #Dvorak
2059

% grep -Pci "^[ashtgyneoi']+$" words #Workman
2415

% grep -Pci "^[arstdhneio']+$" words #Colemak
5090

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Because #colemak has the character D located at the G key and char B as B. My finger drags from the g down to b

After having struggled so much with teaching myself the #Colemak #keyboard layout over the years, I'm pretty surprised how I can now easily switch between my standard keyboards (e.g. laptop) with QWERTY layout and my split keyboards programmed with Colemak. The human brain is a wondrous thing. #MechanicalKeyboard

So last week, I started learning #colemak

Then I stumbled upon the French #ergol and dropped everything to start using it.

It works great for both French and English, and comes with a great layer for programming. Plus it has a funky Star dead key to access all the accents and diacritics.

Will post about my progress here...

Considering trying to make the switch to colemak. Anybody want to talk me out of (or into) it?

so I've been using an #ortholinear 40% keyboard with #colemak layout (all 3 things are a first for me) for 10 days, doing a bit of programming, and testing my typing speed every day

I'm now finally hitting 100 cpm, which is, i feel, roughly 60% of my typing speed before the switch

the first week was harsh. i knew where the keys were, but my fingers just wouldn't hit them

second day of learning #colemak

first day of actually using #colemak

wow, it's so comfy

also, my new #ortholinear 40% is cute and comfy as well (the keeb in the background is for emergencies, but mostly is just there as a USB hub)

It’s two years since I switched from Qwerty to #Colemak.
Unlearning 40 years of muscle memory is possible, but isn’t easy.

I've started exploring a modern #AltKeyboardLayout called #Gallium, very similar to the #Graphite layout. It is reported to have a nice flow to it, will see how it compares to the #ISRT (#Colemak based) layout that's I've been using up until now. #MechKeyboard #ErgoKeyboard

https://www.teachmaths.org/index.php/2024/10/02/gallium-keyboard-layout/

#keyboard layout preference
pls, boost for reach

Hier wurde gerade auf über 10 Seiten ein pull request ausgedruckt, weil der Programmierer Ctrl-P und Ctrl-F verwechselt und schneller enter gedrückt als es gemerkt hat.

Just spent about an hour on an #xkb config for to remap some Alt- and Meta- combos to ëË, ýÝ, and àÀ. My keyboard now combines German, French, and Albanian symbols on a US #colemak layout. I will not apologize.

Hello #Colemak and #ColemakDH experts out there.
I would like to have your hints, ideas and guidelines on my thoughts.

https://marcoxbresciani.codeberg.page/keyboards/colemak-it.html

The most famous layouts are English-based, but what if I want to create something based on Italian letters frequencies?

i feel like a BIG BRAIN GENIUS rn because I just suddenly thought to make an inverse #Colemak layer in my keyboard's firmware

yes, for those games that bind to letters from the logical layout from the OS (and especially ones that seem to apply it once when starting and then don't react to changes, how the fuck even) instead of physical keycodes

…funnily enough I haven't been playing a lot of games any recently