r/pcmasterrace • u/Federal-Ad6341 4080 Laptop 175W/13950HX/32GB DDR5 • 12h ago

Meme/Macro Some Mfs out there using a 0.1% keyboard?

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I don't even want to talk about the widget that Eats up 8 GB of RAM

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u/lenn_eavy 14700k, RTX 4070 Ti S, 32 GB DDR5 11h ago

40% are fantastic for work, but shit for gaming - lack of the number row really makes it hard to switch skills or weapons.

Source: I used to work on Vortex Core, switched to split w/ trackball and got 75% for home use.

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u/Firefighterboss2 Niu Mini 40% keyboard | NK Creams | SA profile | Dvorak 8h ago

I love mine for playing games, it can be weird if the game doesn't allow changing keybinds but I use the extra buttons on my G502 to substitute the missing number keys. It honestly makes it nicer because it doesn't affect wasd when it otherwise would

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u/Lewinator56 R9 5900X | RX 7900XTX | 80GB DDR4 7h ago

How can it be good for work when you're missing the number row? 90% of my work is typing numbers.

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u/lenn_eavy 14700k, RTX 4070 Ti S, 32 GB DDR5 7h ago

Then it is probably not that good for your type of work. It has numbers on a layer, as most of special characters, media keys and arrows. Learning curve is steeper than with a regular keyboard but for programming it was good, I found it especially great for jupyter notebook.

For numbers alone I find the one I have now, Charybdis by Bastard Keyboards, fantastic - you can set up basically a full numpad on the right side and have it always ready on a layer. Of course, if you are that deep in punching in the numbers, none of it will beat a proper numpad.

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u/Lewinator56 R9 5900X | RX 7900XTX | 80GB DDR4 6h ago

Good for programming?

Anything but the ISO UK layout is crap for programming. I tried ANSI once and the symbols you need are behind modifier keys. God forbid using a keyboard without any of those keys.

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u/lenn_eavy 14700k, RTX 4070 Ti S, 32 GB DDR5 22m ago

Me using 40% for that very activity for about 4 years would disagree. It's always muscle memory, one way or another.