I recently transitioned from an Asus X515 laptop to an Asus TUF F16 laptop, and overall the process has been better than I expected. You’ll always have the usual hiccups - installing the necessary apps and tools, configuring everything - but there haven’t been any big issues so far.

One minor thing that became a little bit of a bother was the placement of the DEL key on the TUF. The X515 has it in the ‘usual’ place on the top row just to the right of the F keys. The TUF moves it to the top row above the NUM PAD.

After one too many times hitting the wrong key, I decided to take matters into my own hands. I installed AutoHotKey on the TUF, and put in a mapping so that F12 is now the DEL key. For now, the DEL key continues to be the DEL key. Frankly, I can’t remember the last time I needed to press the F12 key, but if it ever comes up I’ll add a second AHK mapping so that the DEL key acts as the F12 key, and vice versa.

The joys of modern technology.