Kaffis Mark V wrote:
Exactly what Midgen said, and Amanar's analogy to arbitrarily switching native keyboard layout support is a good one to shape the conversation, too.
It goes deeper than that, because the jury is still out on whether Dvorak actually is more efficient than QWERTY in the first place. Much like how, despite Lenas' protests, the keyboard is not definitively more efficient than the mouse.
I use keyboard shortcuts to copy/paste anything from files to text. Sometimes I select text with the mouse, sometimes I select text with arrow keys. Files I always select with a mouse, even though I'm perfectly capable of typing out commands to move files. The visual representation of the directories as file folders is much easier to navigate than trying to type out a path. Moreover, typing file paths requires memorization of the directory structure in a way that the visual representation does not.
I know many people who do not use keyboard shortcuts to copy/paste files or text. They always right-click the mouse to bring up a menu, or select those options from the edit drop-down menu. They do not know the keyboard shortcuts, and the fact that they do not have to know those keyboard shortcuts to accomplish those tasks is its own form of efficiency.
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