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Title: Keyboard enthusiast
Post by: Pompom58 on Wed, 17 June 2015, 08:50:48

Hi folks!

I am a French medical student and a keyboard enthusiast since a few months.
I fell in love with the G80-1800 layout and Model M.
The beginning of a long illness and modern medicine does unfortunately not seem able to stop it...

Title: Re: Keyboard enthusiast
Post by: MAR82 on Wed, 17 June 2015, 08:59:44

Hey there,

Welcome to GH  :)
I'm also in France, love my Model M but still looking to get my hands on a 1800 (with Windows key).
So are you more of an AZERTY or QWERTY user? From the last/first Paris keyboard meetup, it seems that about half the people there use QWERTY (I know I do, but I'm not really French  :p)

Title: Re: Keyboard enthusiast
Post by: Photekq on Wed, 17 June 2015, 09:00:42

Good to see you here! Welcome :)

Title: Re: Keyboard enthusiast
Post by: Pompom58 on Wed, 17 June 2015, 09:33:36

Thanks for your welcome!
I really appreciate the Raptor you sold me Photekq. Just want to change for vintage blacks when I grow more experience with soldering!
I'm an AZERTY user because I don't code and I 'm too lazy to go to QWERTY currently  :D
Photekq has some NIB Raptor K1 ISO FR (1800 with Windows keys, 6KRO and a USB hub) if you need!

Title: Re: Keyboard enthusiast
Post by: azhdar on Wed, 17 June 2015, 09:43:32

Welcome to the azerty masterrace.


FYI Azerty seems to be more efficient for coding. Interesting read :
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=35152.msg1713486#msg1713486

Title: Re: Keyboard enthusiast
Post by: Pompom58 on Thu, 18 June 2015, 02:16:50

Enlightening!
I think I'll start a collection of ISO FR keyboards only because it is my "natural" layout and I do not have the benefit of move on for now.

Title: Re: Keyboard enthusiast
Post by: daRealMVT on Fri, 19 June 2015, 03:42:40

Just wondering, how did you get those nice keyboard images in your post signature?

Edit: NVM, I found it in the simple questions, simple answers thread.

Title: Re: Keyboard enthusiast
Post by: rowdy on Mon, 22 June 2015, 05:51:22

Welcome to Geekhack!

There's so many slightly different variations on keyboard layouts - qwerty, qwertz, azerty just to name 3!

I suspect one reason people opt for qwerty is that it is a more standard layout, and there are probably more replacement key sets in the qwerty layout.  With azerty you'd end up with mismatched key profile on some rows.