Good grief, Charlie Brown
A couple of months ago when I built this new computer system for under a $1,000, I splurged and bought myself one of those ergonomic keyboards because, well, because my hands hurt quite a bit of the time. Why else would anyone get one of those?
I liked it initially but after a couple of months trying to get used to it I finally switched back to the old Dell QuitKey, which isn’t so quiet anymore but still has a nice tactile feel to it. I could have eventually gotten used to the funny Qwerty part of the ergo keyboard, but the function keys and Home/End/Insert/Del keys were just too dysfunctional.
For example the F9 key was in the middle of a group of keys instead of on the left end of a group. Now that may not seem like much if you never use those keys but I happen to use the F9 key about a thousand times a day to refresh database views and have used it thus for over a decade. You think it’s hard to quit smoking? Well boy howdy let me tell you.
Same with he navigation keys. I am a primarily a keypad editor. It’s highly efficient. (Yes, I go way back.) Changing the Home/End/Insert/Del keys is like rearranging the furniture in a blind person’s apartment.
The pisser is that now, after switching back to the old style keyboard, I keep hitting the F10 key instead of the F9 key. Aaarrrgh!