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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: welsinki on Tue, 04 February 2014, 12:21:54

Title: Best 60% Keyboard for OSX/Linux: Ducky Mini or Poker II?
Post by: welsinki on Tue, 04 February 2014, 12:21:54

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Title: Re: Best 60% Keyboard for OSX/Linux: Ducky Mini or Poker II?
Post by: Oobly on Tue, 04 February 2014, 13:05:14

https://www.teraset.net/product_details.php?p=9827#.UvE4krQzG9I

Or a Poker 2 UK version and a Nordic keycap set. They are essentially the same keyboard. They'll both work fine with all 3 major OS's.

Title: Re: Best 60% Keyboard for OSX/Linux: Ducky Mini or Poker II?
Post by: snoopy on Tue, 04 February 2014, 13:24:06

HHKB would be the right board. Get one without legends, learn to touch-type and you're perfectly covered for osx and linux.

Title: Re: Best 60% Keyboard for OSX/Linux: Ducky Mini or Poker II?
Post by: quickcrx702 on Tue, 04 February 2014, 15:26:35

I agree, get one without the legends so that you don't have to worry about matching the key mapping to what's printed on the keyboard.  Not sure about OSX, but with most Linux distros you can customize the key mappings very easily to anything you want.

Example:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Howto%3A%20Custom%20keyboard%20layout%20definitions

Title: Re: Best 60% Keyboard for OSX/Linux: Ducky Mini or Poker II?
Post by: welsinki on Wed, 05 February 2014, 05:09:33

Thanks for your suggestions. In the end I went with the Ducky Mini with white leds and mx browns. A shop in my city had them in stock with Swedish/Finnish caps so I couldn't resist.