Probably mentioned here but its UI customization is pretty much limited to your css skill. You can go dense as much as you want or elegant with much paddings as usual. I tried almost every chromium variants but can't bear the touch friendly paddings and scaling.

They maybe anti of many things but still have aesthetics..

I agree with sentiment, it"s slightly sophiscated and good haha!

100% agree, most of qwerty keyboard with flat staggered layout as in typewriter is faulty and ancient design yet it's widely adapted for some reason.

Add a deskmat or 3m sticky foot, it helps a lot.

Can you share a link? Are you referring to rubber feets that stick on or feet made of sticky material?

My keyboard came with some small rubber feet. Like these, although smaller: https://www.rapidonline.com/3m-bumpon-black-transparent-self...

I have it on a "gaming" mouse mat, i.e. an enormous mouse mat.

Right, or blu tac, or anything else sticky (well maybe not anything else sticky).

There's homing h/j key for it, though I rarely need it.

Only if proprietary softwares outside of dev toolchains support linux natively, I do really want that but in reality it is not.

Which software would you need to work to make the switch? So much of what I use is web-based nowadays, it's only really dev tools and games which I care about running natively. The former is best-in-class on Linux, and the latter is getting pretty darned good.

Not much actually, Ableton Live, Max/MSP and loads of ancient VSTs. Yes I tried ardour, bitwig and reaper but those aren't enough for my workflow unfortunately. Also HW supports isn't great on linux when it comes to various combination of external audio gears.

Like another child comment said, I've tried multiple distros for years as well but always came back to win cause I can't be bothered to maintain two different OS in my flavor. Windows is cumbersome for sure but it can be mitigated at the end of the day. Windows is not my fave OS per se but just works in most cases..

I've been actually a mac user for a long time but it sucked on HW/SW in my case. I ditched mac like a couple years ago but now It might be in a better fit..

Oh my friend just started working at Ableton! Anything you wish you had from their products?

There will always be some people who are stuck on Windows, because there will always be some people who need to use things like SolidWorks / Fusion 360 / Altium / Zemax.

Function + hjkl on 40% keyboard, with that I don't need to move my wrist. Sometimes it feels a bit lousy to use standard keyboard..

This sounds a lot promising, why haven't I thought this? Portable builtin monitor arm must be painful HW engineering but I can see myself very easily enjoying this feature.

It is indeed possible, I tried a few and it indeed works but pretty unstable so far.