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No, fuck you. It's hard enough to find a keyboard with Ctrl and Alt in the positions I prefer these days. I don't need any of the current keys smaller to make room for another one, the only times I hit that stupid key between them is quickly followed by cursing. I remove the windows key from my gaming keyboards because I don't need it, FN is also a pain, especially when there's no fn lock toggle. Why don't we just use that as an alternate key? Microsoft go fuck yourself.
Plus, fuck them for putting another Microsoft logo on keyboards.
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Um... that's your example of a "wild" keyboard? I would've gone with a "Steno" keyboard. Which is inspired by the custom keyboards used in court houses to write transcripts. Typing on them is crazy fast too.
Holy shit, watching that video was excruciating
Or just https://artsey.io ('cause why use 2 hands when you can use one)
Holy forking shirtballs, the longer I look at that the worse it gets
As a PowerShell scripter, having the backtick and pipe keys moved with the escape and delete in their places would just drive me batty
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Is this one supposed to be worse? 'Cause rn it's marginally better (split spacebar => ~3 keys for each thumb instead of 2.5).
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Personally, I find layers more convenient. Like numbers on qwerty..., shift+numbers on asdf..., and all that stuff
I love layers too, caps lock is my escape key/modifier key now and im happy.
Also, do you like to peck and type your numbers using "Fn", "Fn1", "Pn", the illusive green modifier or all of them at once for capital numbers /s
I mean, it seemed pretty obvious from the headline, but the article specifies that while they're doing this, it's not like they can somehiw make the 100s (if not thousands) of different keyboard manufacturers include this key...
What might happen later is they require OEM products to have it when they come with Windows.
Which would still really only be an issue for laptops.
And I'm pretty sure even people with "gaming laptops" don't use the built in keyboard most of the time.
I dunno tho. I've never been able to understand the people who buy gaming laptops.
Do they require the windows logo on keyboards?
Its existance and function are part of the keyboard spec, genarically called the "super" key. Theres likely a contract and a social force keeping the logo present and not using the genaric logo. Some Reaserch I found
Looks like my next keyboard is going to be a mechanical one. I don't want a "copilot" key that I won't use!
Build your own?