I don't know if I'm in the minority here, but my boards rarely do what the legends of the keycaps say. I have layers and layers of all sorts of different functions on my 40%s all the way up to my TKLs that do exactly what I want/need. No one ever 'lives without' a key.

I would even argue my smaller keyboards, like my Corne, that appear to be 'missing' a ton of physical keys can end up with more keys that are easier to reach than much larger boards. Example being, there's no number row on the Corne but by simply holding down one of the Fn keys I end up with a full numpad that I can mash out numbers in without looking and with one hand; something I'm unable to do with just the standard row of numbers above the alphas. It makes those keys kind of pointless, especially if you have to move your hand to reach a key.

Thanks!

As for your question, this is also a totally new layout for me so I'll definitely need some time to adjust, but I remapped the caps lock to be my control key and I use Fn to use the caps lock.

I do have a windows key though! It's the "code" key. The keycaps set didn't include a windows one so I did what I could.

It's definitely a weird layout, but so far I'm liking it

HHKB has both of those keys so i’m not sure what u mean

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Caps lock is a useless key to me, so I switch it to the windows key. On a hhkb I have the control where the caps lock is and my windows key on the right shift when pressing the fn key. It takes a while to learn but i prefer it now and even find my TKL to slow because I have to leave my home row for just some arrow keys. It remains preference of course.

Yeah, I never understood win-keyless keyboards either. I'd assume they're using some other os like arch with bspwm but even that is tough without those two!