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Why Many Keyboard 'Fn' Keys Are Poorly Designed

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12d ago· 10 min readenOpinion

Summary

A critical opinion piece about keyboard 'Fn' keys, arguing that while some implementations are thoughtful and configurable, many are poorly designed and frustrating to use. The author shares personal experiences with a wireless keyboard/trackpad combo used with a media center PC, highlighting how badly implemented Fn keys can ruin the user experience.

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Sometimes these are implemented in careful, considerate and configurable ways... and other times they just make me want to throw the keyboard out of the window.

For convenient sofa use, I've equipped it with a wireless keyboard/trackpad combo.

I'd love to hear your experiences of these (IMHO horrible) keyboard features, whether good or bad.

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Sometimes keyboards come with a 'Fn' key that allows some of their context-sensitive keys to do particular general-purpose functions. Sometimes these are implemented in careful, considerate and configurable ways... and other times they just make me want t

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