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The Libra Mini is extremely cool. I find it hard to use row-staggered boards these days or I would most likely have picked one up by now. It is unfortunate though (or at least, this was true last time I checked) that the mfgr doesn't publicly share the QMK code used to build their firmware, which they are supposed to.

I do have one board with a joystick, the Edingburgh41, a fun variant of the classic Reviung41 with a joystick replacing the semi-useless center spacebar on the Reviung.

I don't think its firmware was ever quite fully baked and it was also impacted by breaking changes in QMK a version or two ago, so I never really sorted out what my best use case for the stick was. I don't think it's a great mousing device (although might work well for scrolling with the right settings). I think the best case might actually be using it for modifier keys or even combinations of modifier keys.


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in reply to @kukkurovaca's post:

Oh, wow. I keep looking for keyboards with thumbsticks embedded for FFXIV... I have a Razer Tartarus Pro MMO pad and love it, but FFXIV is kind of designed around either a mouse or dual-thumbsticks... one thumbstick and a mouse is kind of weird sometimes. The Tartarus Pro is basically a normcore version of half a split keyboard anyway, such that I keep wondering if there's a split where each half has its own thumbstick?

Sorry for rambling, just excited that keyboard + joysticks exist!

Keyboard people always look at me like 🤪 when I say the optical switch Tartarus Pro is actually a quite good keyboard (aside from Razer's obnoxious software). I think if they sold a right-hand model, two of them together would make an awesome split keyboard.

(There are other gaming claw keyboards that do offer right hand models, like the hilariously weird-looking Azeron.)

But yeah, unfortunately for a lot of hybrid gaming peripherals, including full-analog gamer keyboards like the wooting, most games expect you to either be using a keyboard OR a controller with analog sticks, and it can be either annoying or impossible to configure them to deal with something in between.

It definitely took some getting used to, but it is quite solid — just not something I can use for ordinary typing without the matching right hand, as you say.

For gaming, weirdly enough, FFXIV is one of the few games I've seen that does let you mix keyboard and joystick controls, but then it's a matter of finding two joysticks you can use without changing hands between keyboard and sticks. The Tartarus Pro provides one of the two (though weirdly not analog, it's eight-way)...

I saw a fascinating video a while back in which someone explained how they play FFXIV with ONLY keyboard, it was wild. If I were still playing, I would be tempted to give that a serious try.

I really enjoyed the Tartarus for playing certain classes, like Dancer and Red Mage, where several skills relate to each other on two axes, swort of? So it's logical to form a grid. But then there are classes like Bard that make zero sense because the new skills just got bolted on with each expansion seemingly at random