What is your personal preference based on experience? I Assume because Mac is Unix and Linux is Unix based, it would be more suited, but I have no personal experience with the layout. I am willing to try something new if i hear enough merits for it, and I also find the windows layout somewhat inadequate(The grass is greener on the other side /s)

I dailydrive Gnome, I am not a programmer, but i am a power user

(On a tangent: Why is gnome so restrictive, it feels like its missing a ton of UI features that are trivial without a boatload of 3rd party extensions that break every update; why doesn’t Win+Shift+number launch a new instance, every other DE does, why doesn’t it?; I don’t use KDE because I just don’t like it, I feel Gnome could be way more if it just natively integrated the extensions ).

aesthetically the windows key annoys me and i hate putting stickers on keyboards; I like how the mac layout looks(My very minimal experience with an in store mac-book has cautioned me away from the fisher-price OS so i don’t know if it is intuitive to use)

  • LalSalaamComrade@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    Buy an affordable mechanical keyboard instead. I don’t have one, but I tried my cousin’s keyboard for quite some time, and they’re amazing Kalih Red switches, although I would prefer a little bit more of resistance and a bumpy feedback.

          • cevn@lemmy.world
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            7 months ago

            A keyboard lasts as long as you make it last, in other words, until you spill a beer or coke on it… Even then there may be hope. I have a working IBM Model M from 1989 if that matters…

          • zod000@lemmy.ml
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            7 months ago

            I have several perfectly working mechanical keyboards from the 80s, so I’d say, yeah they last long. That being said, I don’t necessarily think you’ll get decades from $40 mechanical keyboard like you can from an old school IBM, Alps, or Cherry MX keyboard. I mean, you may, but these keyboards were most than $40 back then and adjusted for inflation they’d not be cheap these days.

        • ABeeinSpace@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          7 months ago

          Keychron is very expensive (you’re paying extra for the “slickness” factor of the board in my opinion), but so far the product is quality.

          The optical switch has very linear travel. If you prefer a more tactile feel, the other option for switch might work a little better

    • shyguyblue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      If you’re close to a Microcenter, they should have a bunch of “sample” keyboards so you can find the switches you want. Nowadays, you can even build your own keyboard with swappable switches, so you can have different switches for your WASD keys, if you’re into that…

  • Concave1142@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Keyboard is keyboard as far as I am concerned. I’m using an old Microsoft Ergo 4000 V1 that I got probably 10 years ago. I have used this same keyboard on a Windows 10/11 install, multiple bare metal Linux installs and a MacBook Pro.

    The only issue is the Command key as I recall on the MacBook but that can be remapped if I remember correctly.

  • N0x0n@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    Hummm… personal preference, but when I SSH into a linux server with my Mac… I totally hate the keyboard shortcuts… They are driving me crazy.

    Windows keyboard shortcuts, feel more “native” and easier to use.

    Can’t explain it, but while I used both, I totally hate the mac keyboard shortcut keys.

    Doing something like CMD + Option + bsp that refelects to alt + bsp on windows… :/

    • Zanshi@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Huh, interesting. Since I got a Mac at work I have problems going back as command/alt + key feel a lot more natural than control + key.