I just made this image revolving around an idea that I've had for a while. I've been considering getting a cherry mx blue compact keyboard for typing, and a cherry mx red ergonomic gamepad for playing games. Is this a good or bad idea? Does anyone here have this kind of setup? Should I be asking /v/ instead?
On a more tech related note, can you set the compact keyboard to be dvorak and the gamepad to be qwerty? Does Windows and GNU/Linux support different keyboard layouts for different keyboards?
have you ever considered moving your fucking keyboard a few inches over what the hell kind of non-problem is this you're poring over
Christopher Anderson
Yes but if I move my full sized keyboard to the center, I have no room for the mouse, at all. Also the way my current desk is, I can't move keyboard that easily, I have to rearrange everything around it.
Andrew Ross
>wow my full-size keyboard is too big for my desk >this proves compact keyboards are always better! Thanks for the input
Julian Hughes
/thread
Ryan Morgan
It's all related to numpad position. I've wanted for a long time to get a keyboard with a left hand numpad, or a 10keyless with a separate numpad that I can position myself. Typing on a full size keyboard is uncomfortable, and if I position it so that typing is comfortable, my mouse is way off in outer space; I'd have to constantly move my shit around. I ended up just getting used to typing with my hands off center, as much as it irks me.
Justin Turner
>still no g13 successor >most "gaming keypads" are just slashed keyboards
Josiah Robinson
What kind of meme device is a gaming keypad?
Austin Torres
fpbp
Tyler Richardson
Full size has 10 key, a tool adults use. I could get a compact keyboard and USB 10 key but why would I do that when I have a keyboard with one already.
How do you reach the mouse without awkwardly stretching your hand all the way to the right? What about applications that need both keyboard and mouse, ie AutoCAD? 2'-9" wide. Technically, yes, it's weird.
Aaron Russell
Imagine being so autistic that you spend 8999 hours on a shitty mspaint image instead of moving your keyboard over a few inches.
Joseph Long
I can't move it freely, I have to take off a speaker, lift it up and place it, lift up again and place it until it's comfortable. Then I have to readjust the wrist rest and make sure the mouse pad isn't hanging off the desk or caught between the desk extender. Then when I want to take a break and play a game, I have to readjust everything which was perfect before, and then I have to spend 8999 hours on getting it at the right angle and distance without annoying the shit out of me.
Basically, no, I can't move the keyboard.
Thomas Sanchez
spotted the armlet
Wyatt Diaz
>How do you reach the mouse without awkwardly stretching your hand all the way to the right? I solved that by learning to use the mouse with the left hand.
Just move the compact keyboard to the side. Is it really that hard?
Thomas Perez
>using freetard shit xddd
Easton Clark
Your problem seems to be that you're using a mouse while typing. You should stop doing that.
Jackson Brown
There's no space on my actual desk so I have a desk extender that sits on the pull out thing. There's nowhere to put the center speaker other than on top of the keyboard.
Is that why people use compact kbs? I thought it was just because it looked cool.
Christopher Thompson
roast me: the thread
Oliver Ortiz
Just get a full size keyboard that's left handed and bind all your "gaming" keys to the numpadd, retard
Alexander Long
I actually have the exact setup that's on your third option there. Tenkeyless keyboard in the middle so typing is symmetrical and a small WASD gamepad on the side. Both hands are symmetrical on the sides while playing with mouse and pad and they are symmetrical while typing with a keyboard. I really like it this way.
Chase Sanders
looks like a childhood desk desu, ask parents to upgrade it
Connor James
I have a fullsize keyboard because it was the cheapest >tfw that desk is larger than mine Just fuck me up
William Reyes
Just scoot over on your chair a few inches to the left then. Fucks sake, I knew compact keyboard users were retarded, but I didn't realize it was this bad.
Jason Gutierrez
>Just scoot over on your chair a few inches to the left then. Judging from his picture he only has an old stump to sit on.
Gabriel Smith
I just want a G13 with Cherry MX Reds that doesn't need LGS to work. Is that too much to ask?
Isaiah Ramirez
You're fooling yourself if you think that it's about anything other than what it looks like. There is no other purpose.
Lincoln Hall
this is next level autist
Jayden Nguyen
fip bip
Daniel Bailey
Then move your compact keyboard more to the right when gaming you brainlet.
Unfortunately. I'd buy a compact one if there were any good PS/2 compact keyboards for my 3rd world language.
Nicholas Smith
A small keyboard that you're not meant to move your hand around on at all. They can have things like a thumb stick.
David Lewis
took way too long for this to be brought up. I like having them at the width of my armrests.
Cameron Sanchez
Are you like 4'11?
Grayson Jenkins
fuck this layout is exactly something im looking for but its some kickstarter project and has some weirdass wings on the top. why cant anyone make a regular layout mechanical keyboard and split it
>but its some kickstarter project and It's done. They already shipped 2000 units and are currently working on "modules", such as trackpoint, trackball, touchpads and extra buttons. They are plugged into the slots at the bottom.
Also, there are regular split keyboards. Though this one is programmable.
Logan Carter
i use a full keyboard because the software i use has different key commands mapped for the number row on top of the keyboard and the numpad and i have to use both to use it quickly
Luke Phillips
link nigger
Aaron Butler
this
Alexander Adams
DO YOU REALIZE THAT YOU CAN MOVE THE KEYBOARD SO THAT YOUR HANDS ARE CENTERED WITH THE SCREEN WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF BRAINDEAD RETARD ARE YOU
Carter Anderson
I use a tenkeyless keyboard.
I rarely need to do a lot of numbers at home, so the number row is just fine. Why take up a little more desk space for something that really has no benefit for me? At work I definitely use a tenkey enough to need it though.
Lucas Thompson
It's like you idiots never considered moving the keyboard to the side when gaming
>The body THREE TIMES WIDER than the shoulders' bone structure How fat are you OP?
Bentley Reed
nigga save up your pocket money and buy a new desk jesus fuck that's shit
Blake Hall
Then move your fucking monitor you faggot.
Grayson Moore
This is silly, the idea of compact for better typing angles and more right arm space for fps games makes sense, but putting the ergonomic hand keyboard thing essentially just extends your keyboard so youve ended up in the same spot you started.
Aaron Davis
>Why do you use a full-size keyboard because i actually use the keypad, dork
Christopher Rivera
Op here. Think I'll reply to keep the (you)'s going just because I think this thread is amusing.
What gamepad would you recommend currently? Nice trips, yes, I've had it like that for a while. Looks comfy but it's not that comfy. No I'm like a foot taller than that It's actually new, I got it recently because my desk can't fit my monitor and keyboard. Long story/complicated situation. The desk is built in and I'd have to remove it and renovate my room and stuff. Can't do that, can only extend it the way I did. If you're doing keyboard shortcuts and clicking stuff like you would in Autocad or something, then you would need to use the mouse while typing Finally someone who understands. Yes but then I'd be staring at the monitor bezel instead of the monitor center. I have a nice chair but I don't have a lot of room to move it around, the atx tower is in the way. What, closer to the mouse? No. That looks really cool, where are they selling it? This Not this I can't move my keyboard easily, I'd have to rearrange everything on my desk. Imagine that it's sitting on something like a house of cards, and I can't do anything about it other than move out after I finish college in like 2 years. Ha Take a picture and put it here I'm skinny but I just drew the shoulders like that because ovals are easy to make, didn't want to spend too much time
I can't. My monitor is an 80 pound CRT. That's the reason why I don't have space on my desk to move the keyboard.
Or maybe manufactures should just put keypads on the other side?
Joshua Russell
>put piece of cloth under keyboard >slide keyboard left or right depending on how you want it aligned or even >move left or right with your chair depending on the task at hand
Julian Gonzalez
OP just created a brand new product range with his gay boy lo fi thread
compact keyboards with gaming pads and mouse
James Baker
>that top pic youre wrong litterally either just move the keyboard over when you need to type on it, or get used to typing with it not exactly in front of the monitor. using something other than a full size keyboard would litterally be a downgrade for me since i actually use the keys to the right of the alphanumeric section.
Levi Brooks
based
Aaron Murphy
Can the gaming pad do double duty as a numpad if needed?
Cameron Powell
Was about to say this.
Noah Rodriguez
/thread Remember to sage, lads.
Jackson Wood
test
Lucas Howard
Why the fuck is Clover claiming In banned when on wifi while browser on wifi works fine. The hell is this shit.
Thomas Torres
/me controls everything from laptop. only keyboards I like = laptop .. use x2x to drift mouse pointer across to desktop (linux) .. x2x or synergy achieves that
Chase Hall
I SERIOUSLY hope this isn't actually a problem to anybody
Sebastian Russell
This is the most retarded image i've ever seen on Jow Forums. Shilling people into buying gaming keypads of all thing.
Brayden Carter
I agree with you but I wanted to try out a model m, so been using one of those for a while now