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Reese Poirier • Edited

At home I use a full-size Filco Majestouch 2 with Cherry MX Blue switches and aftermarket light pink PBT keycaps. My only regret with that board is that I didn't buy a tenkeyless version of the same board instead.

At work I use a tenkeyless WASD CODE with Cherry MX Brown switches (so I don't deafen my coworkers with my typing). I'm planning to replace the keycaps with the same pink PBT keycaps I use at home once the stock caps start getting shiny.
I wanted a keyboard that could switch the modifier keys to Mac order. Unfortunately, its hardware overrides the Mac OS setting that I used to rebind CAPSLOCK to ESC, so it's not ideal. I'm currently attempting to reverse-engineer it on the weekends so that I can modify it to allow me to switch CAPSLOCK to ESC instead of CTRL. If anybody has any advice or resources on that front, please let me know.

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Andy Lu

Check out Karabiner. I used to use it back on Yosemite- or at least the Yosemite version- and found it to work quite nicely. Just revert any changes you made through macOS and let Karabiner handle the changes you want.

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Love Karabiner. I definitely don't use all the features it has but it's straightforward to setup and change your keys.

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Reese Poirier

Thanks, I'll try that 😁