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Does anyone actually use a 60% or less for programming work? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm more interested if any of you actually do work on a 60% or below, I see a lot of 40s and a lot of lemmings are devs so do you guys use that for personal or work? No arrow keys? F keys? Home/end? Are you really holding shift+fn+d for end?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I use a 40% (corne keyboard specifically). Before that I had a 60% (Redrafon K530). Neither is bad but I prefer my crone for typing and programming by a LONG shot.

When you look at it it seems like a 40% would be too small for typing, but in reality it's much more efficient because you have layers, so for example with one button my right hand is now standing on a numpad, and with a different button it's symbols, both of which are much harder to reach on a 60% or even a full sized keyboard. This (and other videos from this guy) pushed me over the edge to build my own keyboard, and I'm really glad I did.

Edit: since you asked about arrows on my keyboard you press a button and esdf become arrows. Why not wasd you might ask, and the answer is that esdf is just like wasd but in the position where your hand is resting when typing.