HHKB has a bad layout because when you need multiple layers, removing a modifier key near your left pinky wastes valuable space.
Disagree. The HHKB has remained largely unchanged in terms of layout since 1996, with sales increasing yearly, pretty much solidifying the fact that is is a good layout. It has one of the most thought through layouts of any keyboard imo, though it is also aimed at a specific audience. Any small format keyboard is going to have multiple layers though, no way around that.
The ANSI 104 layout has remained largely unchanged since 1995, with sales increasing yearly, pretty much solidifying the fact that it is a good layout. ;P (And before that, 101 hasn't changed since the Model M in what, 84?) The rest is debatable except for layers, but simply citing numbers isn't very useful lol. More people own ergodoxes now, but that doesn't make the thumb cluster not terrible or the staggering not insufficient. It just means more people are aware of it and decided to try it.
1. Winkeyless is stupid and ugly (why would you want to eliminate a key that you have easy space for?)
2. Keyboards that don't support Linux and Mac are not worth owning
3. The "thock" of Topre has nothing on the click on Alps
4. Alps is the best keyswitch, modded Gateron Blues in the second spot
5. Cherry MXClear feels awful. It physically shifts the whole key as you type and not a linear motion at all.
6. Who the heck needs Gateron Clear 25g switches, was red just too heavy?
7. 60% programmable keyboards just are the most efficient in terms of space and speed of typing for everyone who is not an accountant.
8. People who can't learn 60% layouts in a week or two are just not good learners.
9. 80% is the least efficient layout (why so much empty space?).
10. SA profile is the best for typing and the least error prone of all profiles
11. GMK is way overpriced, regardless of the high quality.
12. All Keycaps should come with a medium-rough texture.
1. Well this I agree on.
2. This too.
3. Yep
4. Model F or GTFO.
5. It's not a linear switch.
6. 35g, but otherwise yes, they're impossible to type on.
7. False. I use the numberpad several times a day for typing numbers and using alt codes, and my last job was at a call center where I used it at least once per call to put in order numbers, phone numbers, credit card numbers... This also is not an unpopular opinion.
8. Oh most people can memorize it easily enough, the simple fact of the matter is that many people don't want to. I game and my current main MMO uses F1-F12 frequently so a 60% is one of the most impractical boards for me.
9. Of the three most common, I'll agree in general usage, but see gaming above.
10. Subjective
11. Agree, and the 'quality' varies. (Recipient of one of the many badly made/badly scratched TA sets here.)
12. Subjective.
7. 60% programmable keyboards just are the most efficient in terms of space and speed of typing for everyone who is not an accountant.
TIL only accountants use numbers.
BRB, telling boss the news.