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If you work at fixed locations most of the time, is getting real (i.e. external) keyboards an option?

• eropple 7y ago
  My preferred external keyboard only has a PC layout. Having my fingers confused by having none of my shortcuts work is a bummer. The real answer for me is going to be swapping for an X1 Yoga or an X1 Extreme, I think.
  • Roboprog 7y ago
    I have “recycled “ Dell keyboards for both home and work macs. The window keys map to command. Maybe there are some shortcuts / combos I’m not aware of???
    • eropple 7y ago
      The modifier keys are out of place. Which can be fixed with Karabiner. What can't be fixed is mapping every keyboard shortcut to things that make sense to my hands with that keyboard. It isn't practical to rebind everything off of Command to Control even where it's possible, for example. I'm a keyboard-based person, though I don't use tiling window managers or the like. I've got a system (he said half-ironically). Some shortcuts are more comfortable to do with my left hand on the modifier. Some, the right. All of them are hosed on a Mac and fixing them would take longer than what I did today, which is ask my boss to let me give the Mac to the new guy and go order myself an X1. So this story has a happy ending!