But all other keys... does nobody ever uses Home/End/PgUp/PgDown/Insert/ContextMenu keys these days?
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Ask HN: Nobody ever uses Home/End/PgUp/PgDown/Insert/ContextMenu keys these days?
I understand what the current laptop keyboard layouts are made by alien^W someone who is clearly not using the computer as a work tool, but we are close to a decade of this ...nonsense.
All Fn+ keys REQUIRE using both hands. It is all fine until you are somewhere where you need to use one hand to hold your notebook and ... you can no longer press any Fn+ combo.
I have a pretty big hands and I can't stretch my fingers enough to reach both bottom-left Fn and any key on the right side of keyboard. On a 14" laptop. Which could had all the keys (compare X220 and T440 for example) but it doesn't.
Thinkpads are still have PrtScr on ContextMenu, which means I would 100% lose contents of the clipboard some hours later. Who needs PrtScr /there/ anyway? I want to hear the reasoning, like "we noticed (through our telemetry? how?) what our users are making screenshots all the day so we moved the PrtScr in the place of ContextMenu button"? You can replace the Space with PrtScr then, it would be pressed even more.
16" notebook? You will still have a sub 12" keyboard on it [0]
14" notebook? You won't even have the chance to see it's keyboard - you can see photo of it's back (like this is somehow important in the age where is nothing on a laptop back) but you can't see it's keyboard.
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[0] https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadx1/x...
[1] https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadx1/x...