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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] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've been using a Corne-ish Zen at work for a couple years now. It's a split 3x6 grid (columnar staggered) with three thumb keys on each half.

Numbers are home row with a left thumb modifier, symbols are home row with a right thumb modifier. F-keys the row above with the same modifiers. Navigations is yet another modifier (holding down semicolon actually), with IJKL for arrows, H for home, N for end.

Everything is either zero or one keys away and zero or one layers away.

I have a Kyria too, as another poster mentioned. But I wanted to try low profile choc switches and prefer them for work. BLE is pretty nice too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'd be interested to see your profile for the Corne-ish Zen, if that were possible! Or even just hear of any tweaks or assignments you've enjoyed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

I think this is still accurate, haven't taken recent updates

https://github.com/draycs/zmk-config-Corne-ish-Zen/blob/main/config/corne-ish_zen.keymap

The bluetooth profile switching is nice. I can swap from work laptop to personal laptop with a keypress.