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I think that all these small factor laptops should just use JJ50 layout[1] for the keyboard. It makes no sense to arrange them into old QWERTY-style, you can't use it comfortably anyway.

1: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32957204924.html

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I tried to raise awareness of this multiple times, in the forums, on their website, on the chat. I either had crickets or answers that fel strongly opposed to changing anything with their layout.

Anyway, I feel like an ortholinear keyboard woukd be better, maybe with an enter key in the middle to space hands more, like I wrote in the past: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=10885&pid=86112#...

I might try to print an alternate case and PCB. A forum post mentions joycons, joycon grooves could be a fun addition :P

I'm not opposed to using a standard that's somewhat different, but I need an enter/return key.

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