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Cursor arrow key layout fail.

Devs use cursor keys more than anyone and they didn't prioritise a layout you can easily hit with muscle memory. I know because my current laptop has a layout like this machine and it sucks



Inverted-T is a good layout for the most part, but I think IBM/Lenovo have suckered me into their 3x2 arrow cluster. Having pgup and pgdown so close to a single hand really helps me fly through docs and PDFs.


What is the IBM/Lenovo layout for their arrow keys?


Inverted-T with page up and page down in the two "holes", forming a 2x3 grid of equally sized keys


Yeah, I love that pgup/pgdown placement, it's so nice when reading.




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