The existence of a "home row" is a historical misunderstanding. There never was a "home row" - it was a later explanation for placing your fingers where the arrow keys were before there were arrow keys, i.e. in the 1970s. Your nav block should probably be named the "home row" today ... ;-)
I am not a good idol for which keyboard to buy and which layout to use with it. I never learned to use ten fingers to type. But I still won a typing contest at school, so that's OK for me. To each their own!
Bepo is a layout made on the same methodology as Dvorak, but for French, with a good placement of characters often used by programmers (semicolumn, brackets, curly brackets etc.). It has quite a good community around it, so it's not that hard to find help on how to make your software behave well with bepo (for example, vim configuration).
For the home row, there might be no historical meaning behind it, but it means all my keys are at most 2 keys away from my fingers, so I'll take it as it is.
But of course, to each their own, if you can type fine without all of that, and don't have any risk of problems with your wrists, then it's all good :)
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The existence of a "home row" is a historical misunderstanding. There never was a "home row" - it was a later explanation for placing your fingers where the arrow keys were before there were arrow keys, i.e. in the 1970s. Your nav block should probably be named the "home row" today ... ;-)
I am not a good idol for which keyboard to buy and which layout to use with it. I never learned to use ten fingers to type. But I still won a typing contest at school, so that's OK for me. To each their own!
I never heard of BEPO though.
That's still where my arrow keys are.
Why aren't yours?
Because I have actual arrow keys and I don't use vi/Vim.
Bepo is a layout made on the same methodology as Dvorak, but for French, with a good placement of characters often used by programmers (semicolumn, brackets, curly brackets etc.). It has quite a good community around it, so it's not that hard to find help on how to make your software behave well with bepo (for example, vim configuration).
For the home row, there might be no historical meaning behind it, but it means all my keys are at most 2 keys away from my fingers, so I'll take it as it is.
But of course, to each their own, if you can type fine without all of that, and don't have any risk of problems with your wrists, then it's all good :)