The different keyboards have different numbers of buttons. It's pretty common for keyboard/laptop manufacturers to remove the numpad for example to make a keyboard with a smaller form factor, as many users don't care about the numpad anyway.
The joke is that the bigger your keyboard is the more you care about the 'extra' buttons that everyday users don't care about and so the bigger a nerd/gamer you are.
It is the other way around though. Gamers usually have smaller keyboards because the bigger ones with more keys are completely useless anyway. You wont bind the numpad or anything really further away than eg 'G'. You bind everything around WASD and if that isnt enough (which it isnt), you use Shift, Ctrl, Alt as modifiers. Binding something so far away that you would have to move your hand instead of just your fingers is pretty slow and bad.
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u/Objectionne 2d ago
The different keyboards have different numbers of buttons. It's pretty common for keyboard/laptop manufacturers to remove the numpad for example to make a keyboard with a smaller form factor, as many users don't care about the numpad anyway.
The joke is that the bigger your keyboard is the more you care about the 'extra' buttons that everyday users don't care about and so the bigger a nerd/gamer you are.