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What layout and switch do you use and why?

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Rob27shred:
While I have a decent mix of everything from 40% to full sized, clicky to linear, modern to vintage, high end to budget in my collection. If I was pressed to choose a single layout & switch type to use from now it would be a WKL TKL (F12) with a good top mount & a good gasket mount implementation on it with light linear switches. Even though people like to meme that everything comes back to WKL TKL & MX blacks modded to your preferences once you've tried a good bit of what is out there in the custom KB scene, it proved to be very true for me. A good WKL TKL with really nice deeper sounding light linears is for sure my preferred setup after trying most everything there is to try as far as layouts & switches goes.

wjrii:
For this year, I’ve been almost exclusively using my own hand-wire builds with custom layouts, either a tweak to TKL that I think calls back older boards, or 1800 variations that don’t use stabilizers. Most have heavy clickies in them, but one I like has knockoff heavy holy pandas.  I just got some JWICK yellow to see if it’s linears I dislike, or just light switches in general.

zslane:
For my desktop PC I use either a full-size keyboard or a TKL + Numpad. I prefer either silenced Topre or Silent Brown switches. For my iPad I prefer a 60% or 65% keyboard with Baby Kangeroo switches.

megnin:
I have a collection of over 50 mechanical keyboards, including several Filco Majestouch, Realforce, and many others, but my daily drivers at work for the past decade+ has been two of my HHKB Professional 2 keyboards with their iconic Topre switches.  Unmarked.
I love these keyboards for a number of reasons. 
The smooth, consistent responsiveness of the keys is matched only by the Realforce keyboard. 
Their small size makes them ideal for my desk where I need two keyboards, one for email, database management and website testing and another for my development environment, troubleshooting, and research.
Partly vanity.  I'm legendary in the office for touch typing all day on keyboards with only 60 unmarked keys.
Security.  No one has yet been able to log onto my computer, using their own password, which they have no hope of entering correctly.

The only keyboards I like better are my newer HHKB Professional Hybred Type-S blue tooth keyboards which I use for typing on my phone, one at home and one at work.

ander:
1. Dvorak, because unlike QWERTY, it wasn't designed to deliberately slow people down so they wouldn't jam early mechanical typewriters.

2. Buckling springs, Kailh Box, Topre, ALPS, Space Invader, NEC, Hall Effect, optical, all the Cherry-MX-inspired stuff... Let's see, have I forgotten anything? Probably.

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