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GBoard replacement? (pawb.social)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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Title.

I'm not sure I'm ready to go all "lineageOS full degoogle" on my phone because some rather necessary day-to-day apps for me will freak out if I have root, let alone a modified OS. Buuuut GBoard has gotten right in my tit, and now they're offering nightmarish AI generated emoji and I'm like "NO". So.

I don't really care about predictive text or swipe-typing or any of that stuff, I mostly just type normally.

The only nice-to-haves that might entice me would be support for one-handed mode and a configurable keyboard layout.

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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

FUTO keyboard managed to be very similar to OpenBoard and Heliboard, while solving some issues I had with those (buggy quirks that may well be hardware or software specific).

I used Thumb-key for a few months, to give it a real go, but I'm not convinced I ever got my speed up. Could do about 25wpm at my peak but I can do another 10wpm on a more normal keyboard (with word suggestions) and I don't think I'm particularly fast. Not sure what's normal for a mobile keyboard.

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