The unix69 keyboard layout: nerdy and nice

First glance I thought this was silly with left ctrl changed to fn

But on closer look, I saw caps lock was changed to ctrl. Which is what I do on all my computers

I hope the Framework ecosystem grows so we might someday see a keyboard like this for it

keyboard-layout-editor is such a fantastic site. It's really a bummer that it is unmaintained, haven't found any site that comes close.

I've built a few custom keyboard myself. What always stings though are the fairly limited keycap sizes that are available.

I found you need to more or less target the least common denominator among keycaps lest you find yourself pigeon-holed into one single source for your keycaps.

To that end, really wide spacebars are out — you'll either have empty real estate along the bottom row or end up adding arbitrary "filler keys" (no, my retro keyboard does not need a Windows/Command/Meta key).

I like the Control key where the author places it, but you might find it challenging finding a 1.75u CNTL key among your favorite keycap set.

> A proper Unix keyboard layout must have escape next to 1 and control next to A.

I don't get it, why is this a hard requirement?