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I'm on a Windows machine, so maybe it's different, but I definitely touch type on the function keys.

The ones I use daily are F1 for help, F2 for next bookmark, F3 for search, F5 for run, etc...

Volume up and down are Fn+F10 and Fn+F11. Browser if Fn-F1, email is Fn-F2, and so on.

At one point Lenovo had a machine with a touch bar like Apple has now and I believe it was widely panned by users.



I touch typed on Fn keys back in the fullsize desktop keyboard days. IBM and Logitech. Then all keys except ASCII keys started to move around in new and unique ways on all laptops and "multimedia enabled" keyboards.


That's true. I use three different keyboards and can move between them easily now. When I trade in for a new computer, it usually takes me a couple of weeks before I'm back up to speed on the new keyboard. I'll never be as fast on a (small) laptop keyboard because of the missing numeric keypad.


This is a huge difference between Windows and Mac. MacOS doesn't use Fn keys for shortcuts half as much as windows.

When I'm on Windows I touch type Fn keys all the time. Almost never do that on the Mac.




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