I want to get my SO a keyboard and unfortunately she uses ISO keyboards exclusively. ANSI is not an option.
The only keyboard I found were the keychron ones, looking for more options :/ Something like the Nuphy Air V2 would be amazing.
Anything out there, preferably TKL or smaller? Wired is totally fine.
ISO is an absolute must have, unfortunately.
as far as I know Keychron is one of the companies that offers ISO layout.
I got an Monsgeek M1 V5 ISO barebone and I guess that I could convert it to low-profile just buying the proper keycaps
How come? (Just asking out of pure curiosity; I don’t have a follow-up tip or anything.)
I grew up with ISO (Swedish layout) but I now have an ANSI us layout because 1) I am a programmer by trade, and 2) I can touch type. So it’s much more convenient for me. The Enter key being a little bit wider on ANSI is helpful IMO.
I’m on the same boat as you, pretty much. I grew up with ISO and moved to ANSI on my 20s. If you own an Happy Hacking Keyboard I’ll consider you my long lost brother!
My SO is not a techie person and doesn’t particularly benefit from ANSI. She types a lot in portuguese, our native language, and the default ANSI layout has some really bad key placements. The
~key in particular is in a pretty bad spot consideringãis used very frequently in our language. No point in getting used to a layout that is inferior for her workflow.Unfortunately I don’t, but we can be brothers regardless 😅
Ah, I see! What if we told her she could have some tap-dancing customization where she double taps the a key and gets the ã? Even better than standard! 😁
Depending on how willing you are to set things up for her, you might want to take a second look at either the Voyager, or any other QMK-compatible keyboard. It’s incredibly flexible firmware that lets you define fully custom layouts. If she’s doing a lot of typing, it might be worth the effort to make (and adjust to) a custom layout with quick access to her most used modifiers and symbols.
She stated multiple times that she has no interest in swapping layouts. ISO works for her and she wants to keep using it.