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Have you heard about how people who grew up with MP3 prefer music that's not lossless encoded but that's missing the same frequencies as in mp3 files?

It's the same, except with keyboards: if you grew up with a laptop, you want a 60% keyboard because it's "natural".

If you don't believe it, just look at /r/MechanicalKeyboards on reddit: 9/10 posts are about 60% keyboards.



> It's the same, except with keyboards: if you grew up with a laptop, you want a 60% keyboard because it's "natural".

I don't use a 60% keyboard, but I do use a tenkeyless keyboard because I do love my F keys.

My choice has zero to do with laptop keyboard. In fact, I hate laptop keyboards. Laptop keyboards are the result of severe design constraints imposed by the laptop's form factor, and most of them are pure crap to begin with.

Tenkeyless and 60% keyboards don't take over half your desk for no good reason, and provide you with everything you want or need. And they are symmetric too.

To put it differently, there is absolutely no reason whatsoever a regular user going about their regular day would need a standard keyboard. The tenkey section is one of those oddities that barely anyone touches ever, and more often than not only serve as indicators of when you need to clean your keyboard.


I grew up with desktops with big ass full sized keyboards and gravitated towards 60/65% over time. It's just much more comfortable to use.




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