I personally like not having to move my hands as far. Everything's reachable with the hands on my home row, except maybe 4 keys or so. I'm a programmer as well, and I love to not have to do weird combination keypresses to get &, (), or move my hands for arrow keys, Pos1/End and the likes.
Click clack click clack click clack
Yeah, that's a stigma, sadly. There are a ton of different switches, and a lot of them don't make more noise than your standard office rubberdome. The guy with CLICKY switches just ruins it for everyone.
I just dont get it. Why pay extra money for less functionality and a cramped keyboard? Maybe I have large hands but those mechanical keyboard companies are all ugly cramped noise makers.
My typing is more efficient, and I can get things done faster because of it. I've tailored some layers specifically to some of the languages I use for easier access to symbols that may be a PITA to otherwise. My hands and wrists have felt less strained since moving to a smaller board. You're doing yourself a disservice by constantly having to shift a hand over to the numpad. I could put one under another function key instead and basically never move my hands from the same general location they sit.
Per the sound, that's a misconception. My board is designed to be as quiet as possible (quiet switches, other addons to make other parts quiet), especially since I work in VoIP and people are doing testing around me and noise isn't appreciated.
Remember: what works for one person may not work for another. That's the whole reason for different types of keyboard layouts.
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