Hi,
I found my passion for mechanical keyboards about 6 months ago. Since I am programmer, the F-row is important to me when using basic text editor commands, file managers etc. But I managed to understand that with right settings and use of layers a 60/65% keyboard is good enough and you can easily circumvent the absence of function keys row.
But what I do not understand a bit is why is there SO MUCH beautiful keyboards, IC boards, GB threads etc. without WIN key. I don't use mac, so I have no clue how win key functions there, but as a Windows user, there is so many shortcuts involving windows key that I can't imagine use keyboard without it. Moreover, some of the more "geek" commands starts with combination of WIN+CTRL+SHIFT+letter.
But mainly whole windows charm and ease of use is based on significance and simplicity of use of winkey (I mean, press WIN and start writing first few letters of app you want to run; the win+e, win+prntscr, win+number combinations are just quick, fast and elegant). I imagine that on 60% WKL keyboard, if I want to press Win and Printscreen, I need to hold additional 2 more FN keys just to get the result (presuming prntsrc is fn+f and win is fn2+ctrl or something like that).
Also, the bottom row of keyboards just looks "unfinished" to me in WKL keyboards.
But back to the keyboards as a beautiful peace of hardware - why designers hate Win key so much? And how do you cope without Winkey on your layout?
Are keyboards geeks mostly linux users, or are you comfortable with pressing fn/meta key more often?
Or do you just don't use win+? shortcuts?
(the questions are obviously aimed at WKL users)
I apologize if there was some similar debate and I am being duplicate, I tried to google my questions, but got nothing.
Thanks for your comments!