“Using the mouse forces my hands off the home row, forces my eyes off my cursor (to the target of a gesture). The mouse and all its control-theory e

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“Using the mouse forces my hands off the home row, forces my eyes off my cursor (to the target of a gesture). The mouse and all its control-theory ephemera are a source of sheer agony. They cause me to hate my computer and to tire quickly from any use of it. … There is a special ring in Dante's inferno for the inventor of the mouse and for the legions of GUI designers [who] built all the World's software around it.”

and superfluous menus and prompts and notifications - useless distractions designed to coddle, steal your attention and break your flow

instead of a physical, dedicated space for arrow and fn keys they can be placed on a 2nd layer accessible from the thumb cluster

a regular programmable keyboard (e.g Keychron) will allow layers but without the thumb cluster to access them it’s impractical

it is typical to allocate modifier keys found on the periphery (and thus struck with the weaker pinky finger) to the thumb cluster for easier access

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