I have a ThinkPad Compact USB keyboard at work and a ThinkPad at home (although the external version has a terrible controller/firmware, TrackPoint scrolling is

I have a ThinkPad Compact USB keyboard at work and a ThinkPad at home (although the external version has a terrible controller/firmware, TrackPoint scrolling is hard in Linux. I've mapped it to right click + TrackPoint because otherwise I'd get spurious paste events when trying to scroll). The main reason to use this keyboard for me is the trackpoint - my hands never leave the home row (I have arrow keys and a num pad on layer 4, see http://neo-layout.org/ http://neo-layout.org/ (mouse over the "Ebene 4" button). This really does make it hard for me to user other machines, you're right about that (although every linux distro ships neo, and for windows there is a no-installation-required autohotkey-based executable). But I'm not using other machines enough to make any compromises there. 99% of the time I'm using my machines, and that's what I've optimised for.