Comment on QWERTY Keyboards on a touch screen are still the stupid!
ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It makes perfect sense, we’ve been using it forever, it’s the standard, almost every person that’s taken a typing class for the last 150ish years (in the English speaking world), has done so on a qwerty keyboard. Why bother changing something that just works?
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 4 months ago
Just because you’re used to something, doesn’t make it good.
jeffw@lemmy.world 4 months ago
What evidence do you have that QWERTY is bad?
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 4 months ago
Honestly, it’s a mere shower thought, so I didn’t come prepared with notes and statistics in hand, what I will say is the amount of screen real estate is by far the worst issue.
Midnight1938@reddthat.com 4 months ago
Use something else, try coming back.
Carighan@lemmy.world 4 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 4 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?