Man, I remember lusting over getting a WD Raptor back in the day. They were so much more expensive and lower data density it I couldn’t justify for my low budget.

As was already said, 160 was pretty common, think increments of 20 or 40 is what i remember. Raptor drives had kinda odd size increments compared to other consumer drives. Looks like it would be 36Gb circa 2003.

I once got some retired scsi drives. Man 10,000rpm drives were loud and hot…

Thanks for bringing back some old memories

Is that method different from using the hot keys to swap layouts?

Depends on your desktop environment and if you are using Wayland. If you use the hot keys, probably try those first since using the terminal can mess those up. It’s a bit of a hammer, but I typically manage keyboard layouts only using the terminal.

Like can I tell it to always use that mapping for that game or do I need to remember to run it each time I play the game and then set it back after I’m done (or automate that)?

Hmm, I’ve never had the need, but I would start by changing the game command in your launcher (Steam, Lutis, etc.)

I use gamemode to automate things like changing my RGB light patterns when running a game, maybe there is a per-game thing you could do…

Hey, long-time Dvorak user here, almost as long as a Linux user.

When I start playing a new game, I usally just go with defaults. Some games (like all Valve games) do a good job of using keyscan codes for bindings and mapping them to the layout. If that’s not the case the game is likely to be incorretly using the keyscan codes, or just using the OS’s key events. If that’s the case, I will just force qwerty with setxkbmap us and restart the game. After a few hours, I try to rebind keys for dvorak. Persoally, I like to change keyboardings to use Tribe’s ESDF layout instead of WASD anyway.

If you are using wayland for your display, setxkbmap is great since most games run in Xwayland mode, so native apps will still be in Dvorak.

I don’t really need to type much in games anyway now, so I don’t mind keeping with qwerty bindings. I play Starcraft 2 this way.

The worst experience I can recall is Natural Selection 2, which its game engine refused to bind non-alphanumeric keys like ‘,’ 😵‍💫… But that was playing with Windows, would probably work with Linux if the game was still alive.

We get it, you boulder. 🧗‍♂️