I almost feel like this a somewhat pointless feature. It’s almost easier to just learn the default ones as opposed to adding “-modernbindings” or creating an “enano” variant/copy.

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    7 months ago

    It’s definitely just my opinion. Honestly did not mean to imply otherwise.

    For my opinion I usually create a comment below my post to seperate my opinion and the post itself.

    On-topic: I do believe it’s useful to have this switch and there’s nothing stopping distros to change their default. Completely replacing the default keybindings might be surprising to long time users, but I also believe it should be done at some point. For the meantime this switch can be simply added as an alias.

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      7 months ago

      Fair point. I guess this was more of a casual post, so I didn’t think too much about it.

      I would have preferred if they switched to new keyboard model in version 8.x by default.

      I am a relatively light Linux user. Raspberry Pi headless via DietPi/Debian for NAS/Media server/torrents/PiHole and some experiments with self hosted services on major cloud services. I prefer to stick to defaults whenever possible.

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        7 months ago

        I prefer to stick to defaults whenever possible.

        Same goes for me.
        E.g. changing vim keybindings on my local system to better suit my non-QWERTY keyboard would be annoying since they don’t transfer to remote systems. That’s a reason I like fish, because it’s defaults are modern and useable, compared to zsh/bash which benefits strongly from plugins.