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Since we're bashing on laptop keyboards, I hate with passion all the layouts that put FN key in the bottom left corner instead of CTRL. It's far easier to reach the button in the very corner and I use CTRL order of magnitude more often than FN.

Also it seems that for each producer, half of the laptops have FN and the other half have CTRL in the corner which just adds confusion when you're using someone else's machine.

Can someone persuade me to the superiority of FN-in-the corner?



I can't, but consider remapping Caps Lock to CTRL. Might just solve your problem and make computer use more ergonomic in general.


thinkpads (or at least my x220) have their fn buttons in the bottom left corner but there is a bios setting to swap fn and ctrl.


That's a valuable info, thanks for sharing.




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