my typing keyboard is Niz Plum TKL ( electrocapacitive rubber dome )
my gaming keyboard is Asus ROG Scope RX TKL Wireless Deluxe. ( optical scissor switches )
Discussion
Always good to meet a fellow touch typist and mech keyboard fan...
The only thing I would like more than this keyboard I have now is if it had another 15 keys so it can comfortably have a dedicated numeric key section. As it is I already placed the arrows in the centre of the layout.
When I've got some time to spare I'm going to learn how to hand code these things because currently I have cyrillic, dvorak and qwerty, and the cyrillic I'm probably not going to use much anymore за съжаление but it's annoying because keyboards are programmed by the key location, so to do other languages you have to fuck around with layout switching or, what I haven't done yet - using the compose keys to make them press whatever I want. I want to be able to type portuguese symbols on this so at some point I have to spend a day or two learning how to do that. Compose keys are a pain as well because the systems are different on every platform, so I'd literally have to make one program for linux and another for windows.
I doubt you have this issue, most people just stick with the trad jagged layout and are not forced to make choices like this because nobody seems to understand that ortholinears with pissy little layouts like 40 and 60 are seriously messed up for real work.
my 1st language is Russian but i never use Russian keyboards. i just use https://translit.ru/ which converts phonetic spelling into Russian text.
my mother learned to type using a Russian layout keyboard so she has Russian stickers on all her keyboards and types faster in Russian than English.
i can't type in Russian directly, but i am fairly proficient with Translit so it's a complete non-issue for me.
I made a special layout that follows dvorak and puts J = ж, x = ю, w = ш, c = ц and these characters go in logical places along the number keys: ы№эчёщъь I did all this to type bulgarian cyrillic, and discovered that the bulgarian layout is missing only one key that is present in the russian, but all bulgarian symbols are on the russian, so I just use the russian layout, and that lets me also type the "yo" Ё
I want to change to programming it using the compose key combos because then I don't have to change the layout as well.
Did you know that web browsers always leak your keyboard layout? I was typing since 2004 on Dvorak, leaving a more than distinctive fingerprint on web browsers. Even with all the antifingerprinting turned on, nope, they still confess your damn keyboard layout. So it's nice to now not be leaving that mark everywhere.
And yeah, I'm gonna have to reprogram my keyboard again so I can make all that easier.
I could never go back to qwerty, and with a pair of idobao 75s laying around I never have to go back to staggered either.
i would switch to something more efficient than qwerty if everybody else did. but i don't want to get used to a layout that is different from what every keyboard and laptop outside of my residence uses.
i don't even want to use 75% because it moves some of the keys slightly. i stick with TKL because even though it is missing the numpad what is more important to me is that all the remaining keys are in standard locations.
Well, I totally understand your thinking there but I just don't have to think about it any more. I can plug this thing into a phone even if I want to, and as I say I have two of them and they aren't that big.
to be honest 15 years ago i thought typing was on the way out with technologies like video and voice recognition on the rise at the time.
but somehow typing survived.
if i had faith in typing when i was younger maybe i would have done things differently but as it is i was unwilling to invest the effort into transitioning away from qwerty.