It's not just the languages with all the extra letters either, UK keyboards seem to also have the chonky Enter key
I guess the looong Lshift kind of makes up for it
How are you going to work the spreadsheet mines without the Numpad smh my head
Frankly, I would feel cheated if I bought a tenkeyless board
Ergonomically the numpad was fucking with my wrists since it was changing the angle of how I used the mouse. I switched to TKL and never looked back.
i like the shift-shaped enter key. i only barely put up with the enormous space bar tbh, keys should be small as a general rule imo.
Get a Japanese keyboard. They have so many extra keys on the bottom row, the space bar is barely wider than a normal key.
lol, i can see that. interesting. unfortunately they all seem to go for the enormous enter key though
nothing better than slamming that big ass enter key; i wish we had a bigger Lshift too
Whatever the key that's next to Lshift is handy in games though, easy to hit with your pinky
True. I use "ESDF" rather than "WASD" on an ANSI keyboard, so "Z" is my pinky key
I've always taken pride in having independently re-invented WASD back in the Doom days, and used ESDF instead because caps lock isn't a real key. People called me stupid. It taught me a lot about groupthink and when you tell people they're wrong and your method is better, it makes them feel bad. Since they identify the bad feeling as coming from you, you get attacked so as to restore their groupthink.
That's because the american keyboard layout is designed for for gaming excellence.
need that loooong shift so I can sprint up to noobs with my tactical knife easier
Who needs an easilly accessible enter key when you are doing all the communicating you need to by shouting slurls into the voice chat (push to talk disabled of course)
:heated-gamer-moment:
push to talk disabled of course
Got to establish dominance by letting everyone hear you call your mum a bitch when she knocks on the door to tell you your tater tots are ready.
I have a gamer mouse and the extra keys on the side are for ctrl+c, ctrl+v, and enter so I can maximize my posting.
I hate it when I have to pay extra or get a specific model of a keyboard in order to get the big boy enter key.
I assume the switch layouts are the exact same though, so you could conceivably just get different keycaps. I actually have a laptop with a broken keyboard, and it looks like replacements with the US layouts are dirt cheap on AliExpress. I wonder if I could get one and just swap in keys from my Nordic original.
Nah fuck the chonky enter key. It just means I’m gonna hit enter by accident trying to do a \ or something
You can't hit the \ key accidentally when there's no \ to accidentally hit in the first place :think-about-it:
Backslash is Alt Gr and ?
The problem isn’t accidentally hitting \ or anything else, it’s accidentally hitting enter. Enter is the “end what I’m typing” button, I need that to be small and away.
As a Windows admin... I hate when enter keys are chonky. I need to type the \ key frequently, because Bill Gates is such a genius he needs to separate the basic punctuation from UNIX in DOS and use the less natural slash. The unnecessary space makes me accidentally press enter.
On my layout there's no \ key at all, instead it's Alt Gr + ? (The question mark itself is found two keys to the left of Backspace)
If you build a keyboard you can have 2(.25)u L shift & ISO Enter key :hahaha:
It's pretty bougie, but also I type a lot
The µ-looking character printed underneath the "M" is the same on my Nordic Logitech board though. Youre fired, Mr Logitech Photoshop Guy
America used to have the multirow Enter keys on keyboards, before Congress phased them out in 1996
We used to be a country. A proper country.
