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(Phones and tablets don't count: they have no keyboard to begin with.) I write custom software for a living. I use 2 desktop computers: one at home, one at wor

(Phones and tablets don't count: they have no keyboard to begin with.) I write custom software for a living. I use 2 desktop computers: one at home, one at work. I plug my typematrix to both. When I'm on vacation, I may use my laptop, to which I pug my typematrix as well. Some of my co-workers (10%) also use a laptop at work, because they have to move around. Others (1%) are sysadmins, and often have to go to the server room. Both could buy a keyboard, and plug it to the computers they use. The sysadmins would have to pay for an additional keyboard that stays on the server room. By the way, I use a completely non-standar keyboard layout. Like Dvorak, only optimized for French (Bépo). Since I only rarely use systems that I don't control, this is okay. 90% of my co-workers are in the same situation. What do you work on that requires you to use several different keyboards you don't choose on a daily basis? To me that doesn't sound rare. That sounds alien.

dsr_ 13y ago
I chose the IBM and the Unicomp. I don't like the Apple keyboard much, but I don't use it much. Random keyboards are needed because I might be bringing up new hardware and using whatever keyboard is supplied or debugging a user's problem and using their keyboard. Lots of people have a personal laptop, a personal desktop, and a work laptop or desktop. My wife has her own preferences in keyboards; so do my kids.
- loup-vaillant 13y ago
  > Random keyboards are needed because I might be bringing up new hardware and using whatever keyboard is supplied or debugging a user's problem and using their keyboard. Ah, that sucks. If I did that often, I'd likely bring my own keyboard, and a software utility to temporarily change the layout from Qwerty to Bépo. It's a drag, but not as much as suffering Qwerty. > Lots of people have a personal laptop, a personal desktop, and a work laptop or desktop. I have too. It's just that since I control the keyboard I use on my desktop, so it doesn't really count. As for my laptop, I just put my Typematrix on top of the original keyboard (or on my lap). Ideally, though, I would have liked to have standard keyboard slots in laptops, so I can insert my favourite keyboard instead of the default one. It doesn't have to be ergonomic. Just a little more sensible: http://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/better-keyboards http://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/better-keyboards > My wife has her own preferences in keyboards; so do my kids. Looks that it strengthen one of my points: good keyboards aren't standard. They're adapted to their users. Hence my point about laptop keyboards. It would be sooo cool if users could change them.

dsr_ 13y ago

I chose the IBM and the Unicomp. I don't like the Apple keyboard much, but I don't use it much. Random keyboards are needed because I might be bringing up new hardware and using whatever keyboard is supplied or debugging a user's problem and using their keyboard. Lots of people have a personal laptop, a personal desktop, and a work laptop or desktop. My wife has her own preferences in keyboards; so do my kids.

loup-vaillant 13y ago
> Random keyboards are needed because I might be bringing up new hardware and using whatever keyboard is supplied or debugging a user's problem and using their keyboard. Ah, that sucks. If I did that often, I'd likely bring my own keyboard, and a software utility to temporarily change the layout from Qwerty to Bépo. It's a drag, but not as much as suffering Qwerty. > Lots of people have a personal laptop, a personal desktop, and a work laptop or desktop. I have too. It's just that since I control the keyboard I use on my desktop, so it doesn't really count. As for my laptop, I just put my Typematrix on top of the original keyboard (or on my lap). Ideally, though, I would have liked to have standard keyboard slots in laptops, so I can insert my favourite keyboard instead of the default one. It doesn't have to be ergonomic. Just a little more sensible: http://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/better-keyboards http://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/better-keyboards > My wife has her own preferences in keyboards; so do my kids. Looks that it strengthen one of my points: good keyboards aren't standard. They're adapted to their users. Hence my point about laptop keyboards. It would be sooo cool if users could change them.