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Looks great! What are your thoughts on the lack of arrow keys? I was looking at this but I use them a lot so I wasn’t sure

I just use the numpad. Works nice with mouse in right and numpad left. Good for working/scrolling etc.

Got it, thanks!

I have the same board, to mimic arrows on the right-hand side you can press FN with your pinky and use the other 3 modifiers with the ? key for Up. FN + WASD also works, as well as Numpad arrows!

Slightly off topic question but what’s the name of that Trackball and where’d you get the black trackball from?? r/Trackballs nerd here

Got it, thank you! What are your overall thoughts on the board?

Cst trackball l-1150rc. Hello there fellow trackball enthusiast!

It's fine, not amazing, but I love it for the fact that it's a very condensed southpaw with the F-row. Exactly the layout I want on a board so there's not many other options.

The biggest quirk to get used to is when reaching for Ctrl with my left pinky, I sometimes press the numpad enter by accident - I put a box navy in that key so I have a safeguard compared to the other speed switches.

The software is clunky and mistranslated, no QMK support, but it's been good at remembering to stay on my custom layer - the primary one can't be changed. Really difficult to figure out custom LED patterns/colors.

If you like modding boards it's certainly one that can be improved in a lot of ways - filling the case and taping the PCB is easy enough, but I don't like the plate it comes with so I designed+lasercut a new one - that's still a work in progress though.

The Q12 would honestly be the best option if you just want a really nice southpaw out of the box, but it's way chunkier than the gk96.

Yes, I was initially drawn to the Epomaker because of the compact southpaw layout. But the absence of arrow keys made me hesitate. This is great information to know, thank you so much!

damn that mouse is slick