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Comment by eimrine | Hacker News Reader

So sad all of those are qwerty.

Not all. My Ergodox is in Dvorak (blank key caps though), and I happen to know that Kinesis Advantage can also be configured as such.

Another blank keycapper chiming in. Colemak is working great on my Helix!

QMK is a wonderful piece of software.

Most of them can be reconfigured completely, to any layout you choose.

I think people take pictures with Qwerty to make them more approachable.

I believe its recommended (on Colemak guide) to avoid moving keycaps. You will move the F and J key bumps and find it harder to localize your hand to the keyboard. It also prevents your brain from cheating (reading the keys) instead of training muscle memory.

I understand that but disagree. Moving keycapses may be useful to adapt if you will going to make your job with the new layout immediately, without an option to switch back. Especially when you are living qwerty. Let your friends to type on your kbd to share the good idea about existing of non-qwerties. Let your eyes to love a new layout. BTW Colemak is not so non-qwerty so my opinion it is OK not to move capses for Colemak.

Agreed about the bumps, but with mechanical keyboards it's easy to change keycaps. You can get blank caps with a bump or "deep dish", and also many of the high end sets have a "homing kit" addon that throws in U, D, T, and N homing keys. This covers dvorak, colemak, and workman layouts.

Here's a set with a homing kit. https://novelkeys.xyz/products/kam-superuser-gb?variant=3789... https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/3099/8088/products/homing_...

It has even more keycaps than usual!

I use Colemak with my DIY split design: https://ibb.co/ZGmbFyp

Not necessarily. It’s amusing to watch people get confused when the keys don’t do what the legends indicate.

Way more amusing to watch when they see the non-qwerty and CAN use it.

They are (almost?) all configurable using QMK, custom firmware or even Via :)

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