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Why nowadays keyboards usually don't have L-shaped Enters? I can't imagine productively working without it...

Steelseries mechanical keyboards generally have L shaped enter keys. It's part of the reason why I never bought one.

I understand your opinion as a matter of preference, but why does your productivity require it?

I'm a programmer, so as opposed to prose-like text typers, I heavily use Enter for newlines. And I exclusively use my right hand's pinky finger to press it without precise aiming/thinking/looking.

It is really hard for me to do this for non-L Enters.

Funny. I'm also a programmer and I hate L-Enters because the backslash and vertical bar is in the wrong place.

It also means that either the backspace or the left shift is smaller, and I hate that too.

The only "sacrifice" for me is the small Backspace, and the backslash/vertical is just left to it. Both Shifts are big.

I have yet to find a mechanical keyboard with such a layout. And I think I can deal with smaller Right Shift.

While the L-shaped Enter key isn't standard on most stock keyboards sold in the U.S., you can still find large amounts of new ones online. You can normally find them under the ISO or U.K. style descriptors.

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