Wait until you find out that there are people who "manage" files by dragging pictures of them around, and they have flame wars about which picture dragging file thingy is the best. The rest of us just use the shell and have flame wars about which shell is best.
Shells are gay, I only manipulate my system with C.
C shell is still a shell.
You should switch to EndeavourOS or just install Arch via archinstall, it's quite easy.
What is the use case for altenative keyboard layouts?
I'm French, we use a different layout called AZERTY. When I play certain video gaymes they require a QWERTY layout.
Aside from that there's also things like the 496 key Chinese board alongside the CJK input methods, Indian languages, Thai, and ЙЦУКЕН. Nobody gives a shit about turkroach keyboards or Livonian
QWERTY is very left-handed heavy and there are common letters off the home row. Using any other layout reduces finger movement, which leads to lower hand/finger/wrist injuries. QWERTY is retarded and it's a shame that it ever became the standard.
QWERTY is the standard because that's what was needed to prevent typewriters from jamming, and is completely useless in this day and age.
When I was growing up in a place that had been on the Soviet side of the line, we had a really obscure keyboard layout that I don't think even Russian keyboards ever used. There may still be some old fuckers out there who want to set up their keyboard layouts to use something such as that.
I'm not going to pretend that qwerty is the optimal layout, as if such a thing exists, but this heatmap analysis you've done is very flawed, and if you are speed typing enough that you are at risk of a repetitive strain injury, changing the legend on your keyboard is not the solution, buy an ergonomic keyboard. Especially necessary if you're a programmer since modifier keys are bad on every layout except ergo keyboards with thumb clusters.
This is a myth created by Dvorak marketing so that they could convince people Dvorak was a faster layout. In reality, qwerty is an optimized keyboard layout derived from a keyboard in alphabetical order intended to help people type quickly, and most of the best speed typists use qwerty.
i think it was marketed as less finger stretching not necessarily faster
The entire marketing push of Dvorak was about speed. Maybe they've changed since, but ask yourself, what is more likely to be ergonomic, a layout that emerged as the victor during the keyboard era through market pressure, or a layout "designed for speed" that suddenly decided their layout was designed to be ergonomic? The correct answer of course is neither is ergonomic because keyboards are designed for cost of manufacture, space efficiency, and typing speed, not for ergonomics.
You mean the furry version of Gentoo?
Isn't that the one that has custom commands like glomp and knot?
Flatpaks still aren't that easy for just anyone to add. At least with flathun. You have to get them approved. They try to get you to only give certain permissions to leave the sandbox by default. I don't know all of the details. I just know from some people that got their package added to flathub. It isn't just as easy as submitting it, and they add it there.
I've heard of funtoo never used it. I looked into it a bit a while back. And I've only vaguely heard of the other one. Idk how similar they are. Or if they are just made by the same person or something.
The heatmap analysis is based off the most commonly used English letters. Reaching with fingers is not ergonomic. An ergonomic keyboard is a going to make a bigger difference, but each piece in the puzzle makes a difference when dealing with injuries or preventing them.
So reaching with your fingers isn't ergonomic?
People tend to do better with things they've learned from a young age. That is no big surprise. You can take a QWERTY keyboard away from someone, teach them a new layout, wait a few years, hand them a QWERTY keyboard, and they'll be back to full speed after a hour. It's just ingrained into the brain, similar to riding a bike. They could have made it worse than it is, there is no doubt, but it's far from being optimal.