seems allright from here!

Was about to say the same, definitely a good choice!

Keychron site is a pain (to use).

Someone sent me this link as I was looking for a keyboard, so I’ll pass it on. Set region to where you live and select keboard, then go through the vendors listed and see if you can buy the Keychron you like from there.

Heya, are there any other requirements besides the Macros, Layout and no Keychron? How much does he want to spend? Material? And I guess more important, similar style or open for something else? Personally, I haven’t had a look at keyboards of this size and style at all, as gaming isn’t my priority or the vibe I’m after – which is probably the case with most people on here (based on posts in this community). Maybe easier to recommend anything with a bit more info… Just skimming over some vendors, full size with makros are rather rare and kits are kinda pricy? TKL or something along those lines would probably be easier to find w/macros (I assume). I really fell in love with the Lemokey L3 for how it looks, which has Macros but its a gaming sub-brand of Keychron(!) and smaller Layout, so this won’t be a good recommendation at all. Hope someone else can help in this case and that your co-worker will find one he likes!

I’ve had my eyes on the Neos already, but they feel a bit too chunky for my liking even though quality seems great.

Thought more of soldering and maybe even cutting a case out of a block of wood instead of kits. Think I know the direction I’m going now and ordered some stuff, thanks for your input nevertheless!!

Which boards do you own? I spent all evening going through the vendor lists provided elswhere here in the comment section, and well, now I lost track of what I initially wanted as there’s just too many options… XD

Now I’m leaning more towards a 65 ANSI Layout, and more and more intrigued building my own.

How long did it take you to get used to it? I’m sure it will be same here once all is set up in a convenient way and some time has passed.

Thx for sharing, this might come in handy for a start!

I get the idea about blank caps and simplicity, I even considered this myself for a while but it just won’t be useful when working between Latin/Cyrillic on one task or for longer periods of time on one of each and then switching. At least my experience.

If I remember right, there was even some post about DIYing somewhere on here, I need to take a look through the posts again.

Perfect! I know what I will be busy with over the weekend :)

I’m on Wayland. I still fear this part of the process XD but I usually figure things out somehow. There are indeed some characters I only use here and there, so the soultion might work for those cases, thanks for letting me know about your Layout. So what are the techniques to add characters to blank caps? Maybe DIYing would be an idea for the Latin/Cyrillic issue. I’d like some green/brown/yellow combo so maybe I’ll just buy a bunch and see what I can do from there.

I’m not 100% sure I should go with one of their Keyboards then. Also had some other EU based company that I really liked after doing a bunch of research on this, but I lost all my notes about the whole process and haven’t been able to track it down since. Would appreciate the links, if you can find the time later

so ANSI is the way to go. Thanks for the Link, will check it out later

Maybe keep an eye on this one as well, fairly recent https://code.communitymedia.network/MountainTownTechnology/aural_isle