Dell keyboards

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2009–2024), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with Dell keyboards, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 9 complaints

Needs to press Fn plus F1 to mute audio, confusingly named key2024-01-31
Plastic grid above keys stops users swapping ISO and ANSI keyboard layouts later2023-11-01
Home/End shortcut removed from Fn+arrow keys, breaking existing muscle memory2021-06-23
Removing Fn+Left/Right Home/End combos leaves no way to remap them in Windows2021-06-23
Keys register double characters when typing fast, no fix available2016-11-27
Missing dedicated navigation keys forces awkward Fn-key contortions to reach Page Up, Home and End2013-02-19
Right Shift placed beside the up-arrow causes mistakes during daily work2012-02-28
Unusual keyboard layout where apostrophe key is hard to use2009-05-20
Odd-sized, cramped keys with misplaced apostrophe make Terminal use frustrating2009-05-20