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    Laptop keyboard layouts. There is no reason they should be so different.

    Specifically, those laptops that have full-sized left and right arrows, but half-sized up and down arrows - those earn 1 week of jail time for the CEO per unit sold.

    While we’re at it, the power button must be in the same place on all laptops.

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      I wholeheartedly agree. But unfortunately my regulated standardized keyboard would probably be very unpopular, especially in the US.

      ANSI keyboard no more. ISO keyboards only.

      Caps Lock has no use beyond writing angry replies in the YouTube comment section, so Caps Lock will be replaced by Compose.

      Adding a power button, or anything similar such as suspend, in a place where it might be pushed by accident is highly illegal.

      Oh, and all keyboards will be US Dvorak from now on. Sure, you can change the layout in software, but the lettering on the keys remain dvorak.

      And 50% of all keyboards sold will have to have a penguin instead of a windows logo on the menu key.

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        Caps lock is stuck in what is a great place for a modifier. Specifically ctrl. Compose can be somewhere to the right.

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          I prefer to keep ctrl where they are. But if you insist on moving left ctrl to caps Lock, that means that bottom left is available for compose.

          Compose is best to have on the left side, as the first key struck immediately after it is usually one of the characters on the right. Plus, historically, keyboards that actually had a dedicated compose key had it in the left. Where shift is now, I think.

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            I’m very much fine with that, too. I just think it was on the right on Sun keyboards. Either way, not the most common key but infinitely more useful than a caps lock.

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              It has some niche use®s. I for one use it daily - My preferred keyboard layout is US Dvorak, but as a noggie I sometimes need to type æøåÆØÅ, so I use compose for those, as well as the occasional trademark, copyright, degrees, etc.

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      I just want every keyboard to have a home and end button (I’m a coder, and my current keyboard doesn’t have them, and I have to set a binding in every. single. thing.)

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        The Sims 2 had wonderful keyboard shortcuts for toggling walls and jumping between floors via Home and End and Page up and Page Down respectively and this was carried through to The Sims 4

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          Legend has it that there my be up to 2 other uses for these keys, too.

          But surely not more than 2, that would be crazy.