• toastal@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    Nice. A lot of Linux laptops seem sold locked to the inferior ISO keyboard instead of ANSI.

    • exu@feditown.com
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      5 months ago

      Big ass enter is way better than the small one.
      You can’t change my mind.

      • Grass@sh.itjust.works
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        5 months ago

        I always hit the slash instead and the short shift messes me up too. although I switched to grid aligned 1u keys for everything recently and other boards were put up for free for a month or so and anything unclaimed went to the electronics pile at the transfer station.

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        5 months ago

        I’m sure the future RSI from reaching your pinky that far from the home row will agree

      • Norah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        5 months ago

        Okay, and? The person you replied to you is talking about ISO versus ANSI layouts… which define the rest of the keys on a keyboard. They were talking about QWERTY. So clearly there are other keyboard layouts that matter.

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            5 months ago

            It dictates the location and size of certain keys.

            For example the needlessly large enter key on ISO or the annoyingly small left shift key in ISO. You could very likely prefer ANSI as well.

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                Keyboards have two layouts: a physical layout and a logical layout. The physical layout defines what the keyboard looks like, and the logical layout defines what signal each key sends to the computer. Qwerty is a logical layout, ISO and ANSI are physical layouts. Qwerty keyboards exist commonly in both ISO and ANSI layouts.