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Discussion on: Improve workflow efficiency by using your keyboard smarter (Linux)

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Waylon Walker • Edited

I am a huge fan of my 60% (vortex pok3r) I have a vimish layer that is always on. I use CAPS as my FN key so I don't even have a caps key on this keyboard. Having arrows, home, end, newline mapped similarly to vim is a game changer for typing everywhere that is not vim.

Since going to 60% I've only had the desire to go even lower and don't like the massive space that a fullsize keyboard takes up when I need to use one. And the fact that I constantly need to look at it to utilize the extra keys if I choose to use them.

The one thing that is nice about the keymap being part of the keyboard is that I switch between three machines of varying OS's quite often, and I get the same typing experience everywhere.

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Nilkun

That's really clever! You don't know how many times I've flooded my terminal with "j" and "k"! I will definitely try it out!

As for 60% keyboards, I agree 100%. Smaller is greater.

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Waylon Walker

I still do that at least 6 times per day. Many times its because my eyes are on the wrong tmux split.