What is the porpose of this key next to the left shift??? Instead of giving me a wider shift key, you gave me two forward slash keys... WHY?! I suspect Microsoft is behind that.

Errr..... that's not a forward slash....

Cyrillic? oh well might be because of the region where your keyboard is from.

That's a back slash key, if you hold shift and press it, it gives you the "pipe" character, most if not all keyboards will have that key.

You've just revealed 2 things... 1) you've never typed a path in Windows and 2) you've never piped a command in bash. Do you even code, bro? 😝

Or you might be a Russian troll and we're all your victims.

He is referring to the button placement, that could have been somewhere else instead of cutting half of the shift button size.

@illusion466 My MacBook Pro has the tilde (~) key in the same place.

OR WHAT MATE?!?

@Boyski33 @coffeeandhate My Lenovo x1 has the tilda next to my arrow keys. It bothers me a lot

Backslash or whatever, I have the same key next to the Enter key. So I have one of each key except for the slash and obviously shift and ctrl. Let alone the button placement, why do they have to sacrifice the shift key for this?

@illusion466 The European standard kayboard has a rectangular Enter and the left shift is wider. Not this nonsense.

I've got a key with <> in that place and I'm happy about it.

@boyski33 Actually not! The Scandinavian standard has the backslash key right next to the shift key as seen on the picture. I can't live with it anywhere else.. Scandinavia is wierd, I guess

Can we have a picture of your entire keyboard? Just curious.

It's UK layout (with inverted L-shaped enter key) that is also used in some European contries. In US layout we have rectangular enter and '| \' key is placed above the enter key.

UK: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
US: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Yiu need the backslashes for masquerading special chars
Eg. You want to search and replace in vim with default delimiters:

:%s/\/home\/user1/\/usr\/home\/user2/g
Replace /home/user1 with /usr/home/user2 in the whole document

You could have more complex examples, but you get the thing.

@Eariel You've got one key with both < and >? Never seen that before. I guess maybe it's handy for typing XML/HTML? I don't know if I could get used to that…

@CrankyOldDev I'm aware of its usage, but it's beyond me why I'd need two of those: one next to the left shift and another next to the Enter. And I said I think MS is behind that because Windows paths use backslashes. No need to get hostile.

p.s. it's Bulgaria

@devios1, yeah, I use XML a lot (Android device) so it comes pretty handy. It's the Latin American keyboard layout.

@boyski33 I didn't think I was hostile. Certainly didn't mean to be. A combination of the image and the mistaken reference to "forward slash" made me think you didn't know what the characters were.

@boyski33 I bet the other is a forward slash.

Show the full keyboard, I find it highly unlikely you have two backslashes.

@neodite You will most likely lose your bet.

Here is a picture found on google with a similar layout keyboard:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/...

@CrankyOldDev I always mix them up because except for windows I havent seen it anywhere and since I almost never hear the term forward slash I assumed it's this kind of slash. It's confusing.

In case you're still wondering after all these years, this is the ISO layout as opposed to the American ANSI layout.

Are your fingers so thick?