Check ZSA website for ergo or checkout Nuphy website for traditional mechanical slim ones. Or checkout WASD keyboards for custom.
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WASD is dead. ZSA and Nuphy seem to be fine.
What the hell is a 98% keyboard lol? Like just missing a single key?
The number is not precise, but yeah kinda. Usually they’re missing about 4-6 keys, and you’ll also hear “96%” thrown around. There’s a subset of them called the “1800” style after a board from the late 80s that pioneered the idea.
What they all share is retaining the numpad and almost all the other keys, but resizing and shuffling them around a bit so they fit in a narrower width, originally a drawer in a server rack.
Aaaaand this bears some looking into!! 🐻
I LOVE my keychron Q1, so whatever the full size version of that is would be my recommendation
Agreed, my 2 Qs are beasts, and I love them. NGL though, I hate that the Alice doesn't have a knob.
Anything less than full size/tkl and the keys they cut always end up annoying me.
I have a keychron K8 pro at work and a WASD code at home. I just learned that wasd went out of business the other day and now I’m very sad :( I’ve had my code for over 10 years and I have 0 plans on getting rid of it.
You're kidding me. I've gone through so many mechanical keyboards, even really fancy ones like the CTRL and similar ones from Mass Drop and always come back to my WASD. It was my first and favorite. I guess there's still Leopold.
All those fancy drops always seem to be TKLs which just drives me up a wall. I want my numpad. Why is everyone so butthurt about numpads lately?