There are so many things pointing towards ditching QWERTY - WFH jobs, mobile devices, portable keyboards, even virtual projected keyboards rather than physical ones.
On the other hand, laptops are a bottleneck - even if nobody else uses your personal one but you, they still have to make one with a nonstandard layout (will e.g. Apple ever do that?) - and just bc newer, younger people learning how to use computers for the first time could choose a different layout, doesn’t mean that many will (I mean at the mainstream level).
Toes@ani.social 1 month ago
Yeah it’s the same reason most pc games just support the Xbox layout by default making it the only reasonable choice for controller.
meekah@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m pretty sure that also has something to do with windows being the most popular gaming platform and Xbox coming from Microsoft as well.
Toes@ani.social 1 month ago
Yeah the original reason was that supporting the controller by default was a requirement for “games for Windows live” and the momentum from that saw a near universal adoption.
meekah@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I see, makes sense. Thanks!