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Incidentally the ergo board I have is a Moonlander. I absolutely love it and it helped with my hands being fatigued after typing a lot.

I do have an entirely homebrew alpha layout, but I am also a crazy person.

Oh right, I always forget about those. All I heard about them was positive, so that is a plus.

Since you don’t want anything fancy physical layout wise, I would think going with a big conventional brand might be your best bet for at least USB passthrough.

Personally I tend to lean Logitech amongst those.

Unless you really like the lightshow of RGB lighting or want the super high polling for some reason, you don’t need to go for a gaming series one either, which often have inflated pricing. It might even be easier to find a full size in the office lineup, because excel loves numpad for obvious reasons.

Since I went the totally ergo brained route I can’t recommend any specific model in that area, sorry.

I am sorry this isn’t the enlightening solution, but I am missing some info.

When you say standard ergonomic layout, what are you thinking of? Because that word and the 100% wish make me think of the old wavey looking Microsoft keyboard.

I personally can’t recall seeing USB passthrough on any of the ergonomic boards, and after a bit of looking into the standard I can very well understand why. I have literally never seen audio jack passthrough, not even on standard slab keyboards. So for both these features, why do you want them? If it is because your PC backside is awkward to access, maybe a cable can do the job too?

If you do have a budget besides „it will cost what it costs“, what is it?

As someone that was diehard num pad user and believed it is essential, I am now very happy with a Moonlander and num pad on a layer. Depending on how much you mix numbers and letters, that might not be for you though.

Thank you for the detailed answer. Maybe there is a way to find NX like you said, will certainly let him know.

Are any of those comparable in power to things like AutoCAD?

I mean the bigwigs often have some kind of licensing that needs internet access if some kind anyway. So no internet is often an issue, even with the program on the pc itself.

My father worked in machine development, I believe AutoCAD was actually one of the programs they used. I am sceptical when it comes to browser based versions utilising the full power of the system, interesting development for sure though.

Thank you for taking time to reply anyhow!

I can give you my own reason: I don’t have enough energy left besides work and general life to clean up my mess of hoarded data and make the switch. I am reasonably sure that all my hardware would work, about all games I play should work (nothing with crazy anticheats, next to all steam) too. I have two Linux nerds I could contact if needed and I have some prior experience, even though it is about half a life ago.

Edit: Oh and having something that does what I want and not some guessed approximation at home would make me even more intolerant of the shitshow we have at work.

Do you work with CAD programs and if so, do you know a full feature alternative? I grew up with Linux because my father had unix at work before CAD program makers moved to windows and nowadays he has windows because that is where his CAD programs work. He is in retirement already, but very much a creature of habit. So while he has time to learn something new, radically different controls or such wouldn’t work out.

My bank does not have physical representation anywhere, since it is a digital bank. When I joined them they had a sheet of TAN numbers for us to use, but that is long since gone. And seeing how few and far between other banks are with theirs nowadays it would become extremely impractical to do physical banking only.