• Ggtfmhy@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    96% is the best layout. All the convenience of not having a bunch of dead space between your arrows and nav cluster, with all of the convenience of having a numpad with all the nav keys your heart can want. Yes I want Home and End right there on the first layer, I’d have to go mad not to.

    You only need to choose one key to sacrifice, and I happily tucked Insert one layer under Delete. Print Screen is non-negotiable.

    I’m always so surprised to see how unpopular 96% is.

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    As someone not into the hobby (although I have a cookie cutter mechanical keyboard), what is the point of having that few keys? Portability? Otherwise i find it more cumbersome than efficient having to constantly use modifiers to access the full range of keys I might want to press.

    Edit: this was meant as a reply to the guy with a 60% keyboard

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      As a user of a small TKL keyboard, I can say from my own experience having a small keyboard makes it easy and less strenuous to switch between the mouse and keyboard since they are so close together. I also find I don’t really miss the extra keys, I can do my job just fine if not better without them, because of the added benefit of moving fast.

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        I currently do a data heavy job and almost never use my keypad. Just can’t come to terms with letting it go. 96% might be the step that gets me to ditch the numpad!

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          I use my keypad a lot for my job so I’ve always been kind of jealous of the people who can use the slimmed down keyboards. This is a cute little compromise and I’m glad to know it exists!

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      To me the main advantage of having less physical keys but a full layout available via modifiers is, that your hands won’t have to leave the home-row. Working like this is not only much more comfortable but also a lot more efficient. (At least for me)

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    Are these new-ish? I was into it a good few years back and since getting my two full size boards I haven’t really looked back.

    This layout seems really interesting, I don’t want to sacrifice the practical side of full size layout but this saves a bunch of space whitout removing anything, looks great.

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      Nah, they’ve been around a while. I got a zz96 from a GeekHack group buy in 2017 I think.

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      YMDK truly does the 96% right. I have two of them that are my daily drivers. One for business and one for gaming. Both are basically endgame grails for me.

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    Since a couple of days! Is that the Keychron K4? If so then I have the same!

    Although my keycaps aren’t as nice…

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    I’m 65 here, but that looks tempting. I think I’m gonna go 75, I feel like it’s the sweet spot.

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    1 year ago

    Getting my Keychron V5 soon so hopefully joining this club! What mods would you suggest for it? I’m getting Brown switches with it.