I feel swipe to type should be an option on laptops. Using keys to type is slow compared to swiping across alphabets. Remove the physical keyboard and put a 6" to 10" lcd with touch input on it.

  • Pons_Aelius
    8•10 months ago

    One wonders why we haven’t created a new keyboard in all these years.

    Oh they have. There are quite a few different layouts, apparently the Dovarak is the fastest.

    But qwerty has been in use for so long it would be impossible to change.

    • paper_clip
      3•10 months ago

      As a former sysadmin who hopped around to different machines to do stuff, I would hate it when I had to type on some developers’ computers, because they had set it up as Dvorak (vi on Dvorak is a special hell). Yes, it’s a more efficient keyboard as long as that’s the only machine you’re on. If you have to use different machines where most of the users are on QWERTY, you just use QWERTY.