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.
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.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.