It’s not just the languages with all the extra letters either, UK keyboards seem to also have the chonky Enter key

I guess the looong Lshift kind of makes up for it

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Keyboard with a dedicated key for the halfpenny

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As a Windows admin… I hate when enter keys are chonky. I need to type the \ key frequently, because Bill Gates is such a genius he needs to separate the basic punctuation from UNIX in DOS and use the less natural slash. The unnecessary space makes me accidentally press enter.

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On my layout there’s no \ key at all, instead it’s Alt Gr + ? (The question mark itself is found two keys to the left of Backspace)

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They also don’t get an Alt Gr key, imagine being region locked out of having an extra keyboard function :lea-smug:

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We got CTRL, ALT, and Microsoft decided we should have two more, Windows key and the one with three lines with it. Morever Dell blessed us with Fn. How many meta keys does a keyboard need?

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nothing better than slamming that big ass enter key; i wish we had a bigger Lshift too

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Whatever the key that’s next to Lshift is handy in games though, easy to hit with your pinky

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True. I use “ESDF” rather than “WASD” on an ANSI keyboard, so “Z” is my pinky key

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I’ve always taken pride in having independently re-invented WASD back in the Doom days, and used ESDF instead because caps lock isn’t a real key. People called me stupid. It taught me a lot about groupthink and when you tell people they’re wrong and your method is better, it makes them feel bad. Since they identify the bad feeling as coming from you, you get attacked so as to restore their groupthink.

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