My old keyboard served me well, but lately I’m having to replace a broken switch every month so I’m not sure it’s worth it. It’s also noisy as hell and I hate the backlighting with every piece of my heart. So here’s the replacement.
I’ve ordered it from WASD Keyboards, hmu for the design file. Obviously Spanish layout, I chose MX Cherry Brown switches, light pastel colors to improve visibility under dim lighting, and a pattern from a Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion system to decorate special keys. I’ve added a few (superfluous) icons for editing operations and arrow keys for Vim, as well as part of an Aristotle quote I like, just because the spacebar felt so empty. I used the old Greek translation simply to avoid distracting myself (I can barely read even modern Greek, so this looks like an uneventful string of accented letters to me).
I know nothing about mechanical keyboards but why not switch to another layout like Dvorak or Colemak at the same time?
Might be an issue if they use vim?
HJKL keys can be rebinded, but personally I hate touching configs too much.
If it’s editors like Helix, then you’re probably stuck with the default layout. Other than that, I don’t see this as that big of an issue if you’re dependent on arrows. Rest of it is muscle memory anyway.
I’d rather switch to Kakoune - yes, it’s lacking some stuff, but it is tied around using Unix commands, so I like that.
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I switched to Dvorak and, while it was a bit weird in the beginning, I quickly got used to the keys.