What is your personal preference based on experience? I Assume because Mac is Unix and Linux is Unix based, it would be more suited, but I have no personal experience with the layout. I am willing to try something new if i hear enough merits for it, and I also find the windows layout somewhat inadequate(The grass is greener on the other side /s)

I dailydrive Gnome, I am not a programmer, but i am a power user

(On a tangent: Why is gnome so restrictive, it feels like its missing a ton of UI features that are trivial without a boatload of 3rd party extensions that break every update; why doesn't Win+Shift+number launch a new instance, every other DE does, why doesn't it?; I don't use KDE because I just don't like it, I feel Gnome could be way more if it just natively integrated the extensions ).

aesthetically the windows key annoys me and i hate putting stickers on keyboards; I like how the mac layout looks(My very minimal experience with an in store mac-book has cautioned me away from the fisher-price OS so i don't know if it is intuitive to use)

          • Bezier@suppo.fi
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            9 months ago

            My previous mechanical keyboard lasted about a decade. Or it still works, but I bought a new one because the keycaps had worn so much.

              • Bezier@suppo.fi
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                9 months ago

                Replaceable sure, but probably not worth it. My new one is a bit nicer, so for that I might do it when the time comes. I still keep the old one around for random occasions I need a keyboard.

          • zod000@lemmy.ml
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            9 months ago

            I have several perfectly working mechanical keyboards from the 80s, so I'd say, yeah they last long. That being said, I don't necessarily think you'll get decades from $40 mechanical keyboard like you can from an old school IBM, Alps, or Cherry MX keyboard. I mean, you may, but these keyboards were most than $40 back then and adjusted for inflation they'd not be cheap these days.

  • N0x0n@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Hummm... personal preference, but when I SSH into a linux server with my Mac... I totally hate the keyboard shortcuts... They are driving me crazy.

    Windows keyboard shortcuts, feel more "native" and easier to use.

    Can't explain it, but while I used both, I totally hate the mac keyboard shortcut keys.

    Doing something like CMD + Option + bsp that reflects to alt + bsp on windows... :/

  • Mx Phibb@reddthat.com
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    9 months ago

    No need for an Apple keyboard unless you're looking for extra function keys, a regular keyboard will work fine, and if'n for some reason you need the Mac layout, it's available, I've always used the English (Macintosh) layout so I can get easy access to keys I like to use or sometimes need.

  • pudcollar@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    I'm typing on a mac keyboard on Debian. USB one with the numpad. It's fantastic if you're into that.

    The last time I tried to pair the magic mouse 2 though, no joy. I'd be wary of the bluetooth keyboard.