Out of curiosity, why did you go with Colemak over colemak-dh or other layouts?
I totally see people not choosing the lessor used layouts just for convenience sake, but DH is quite common, well supported, and fixes some fundamental issues.
The DH mod addresses the d and h issues that Colemak has. Long story short, if you type primarily in English the DH mod means you will need to stretch your fingers to hit those keys way less often. More information is here.
As for other layouts, the advice that has treated me well is to focus on post covid layouts. Due to a sudden availability of free time a lot of research was done during COVID on keyboard layouts. Resultantly, post Covid layouts tend to be substantially better than pre COVID. I am a fan of Engram, Graphire, and The Hands Down Family personally.
This all being said these are harder to learn because they completely separate themselves from qwerty/qwertz.
Out of curiosity, why did you go with Colemak over colemak-dh or other layouts?
I totally see people not choosing the lessor used layouts just for convenience sake, but DH is quite common, well supported, and fixes some fundamental issues.
idk why I skipped colemak-dh long ago when I found out about it. and idk if I want to change now after more than a decade using colemak lol
It makes sense to stick with something that’s good. I think the small gain going from Colemak to Colemak-DH wouldn’t be worth the struggle.
I use Engram and don’t plan on changing even though I suspect better layouts do exist. The effort is too high for a 1% gain. Lol.
Not familiar, please explain
The DH mod addresses the d and h issues that Colemak has. Long story short, if you type primarily in English the DH mod means you will need to stretch your fingers to hit those keys way less often. More information is here.
https://colemakmods.github.io/mod-dh/#colemak-problems
As for other layouts, the advice that has treated me well is to focus on post covid layouts. Due to a sudden availability of free time a lot of research was done during COVID on keyboard layouts. Resultantly, post Covid layouts tend to be substantially better than pre COVID. I am a fan of Engram, Graphire, and The Hands Down Family personally.
This all being said these are harder to learn because they completely separate themselves from qwerty/qwertz.
Where does one acquire the computerized brain implants that are clearly neccssary for Engram, Graphire, and The Hands Down Family?
It’s slow to install but I strongly recommend the services of keybr.com They have modes that install those specific layouts.