I liked you showing some love for those "3rd world setups". Not every one can afford high end stuff but still be a proud gamer and streamer.

21:28 that was halarious,I would react in the same way

Hey there! Thank you for featuring my setup! And yes the plant you zoomed in was real haha. Also they keyboards I have in my setup are: Iqunix A80 Explorer - the one on the smaller pegboard GMMK Pro with GMK WoB IKBC MF87 with GMK Red Samurai Akko Mod 005 65% keyboard

I’ve never thought that i would laugh so hard on one of Ali’s videos, thanks man for making my day

His reaction to the overcrowded dextop icons was hilarious. I personally highly prefer a minimalist dextop so I get it, but couldn't help laughing at his reactions.

These are my favorite of your videos, your fans really enjoy your input and advice on setups! The more often you’re willing to do these the better! Love the content lately!

21:29 was a surprise, but a welcome one Made me spill my drink

Optimum I'm telling you you don't know how much I waited for this bro we need a lot more of these maybe once every 2 months or sumn like that. Your vids are actually so enjoyable to watch keep up the good work man

I love your OCD going overdrive with the desktop shortcuts 😄. Great video!

I'm planning on building my first pc setup and i find these setup videos very entertaining to watch but also good for inspirations of how i should set mine up

Thanks for having me in the Video!

I used a 40% keyboard for a while at my desk job. For most everyday stuff it was fine, but you will have to learn how to use layers and it will take a few days to find a good layer setup that works for you. In an office environment, the biggest struggle for me was trying to remember which symbols where on the which number key. There are several drawbacks that make gaming extremely difficult on a 40%. No number row kills most FPS games. Even if you rebind weapons to cycle using the mouse wheel, many games have important items bound on numbers 1-5 that aren’t cycled with your weapons. Losing the number row also means losing (or relocating) the two modifiers from that row. Since Caps Lock is pretty useless despite sitting on the home row, most people move it to a function layer. Tab, Control, and Shift are pretty important for most games so relocating any of them from their normal position really messes with your muscle memory. That probably means putting Escape on the home row modifier, which take some getting used to. Layers and special tap/hold key function become important on tiny keyboards, but those are not really compatible with gaming. For ortho 40s like the one in the video, The 2u spacebar in the center is also a bit of a problem is when you play games with WASD, as your hand is shifted over one column. The little 2u spacebar is not too much of a problem when typing normally, but becomes an uncomfortable stretch when gaming. There are some 40s that have double 2u spacebar support, which alleviates this problem. You also lose dedicated F keys, which can be a problem for some games. 1u modifiers are certainly useable for gaming, but it can be slightly disorientating when finding the modifiers vs the alpha keys. It is possible to use a 40% keyboard for gaming, especially if you change your keybinds in game to work around the limitations of the layout, but it is going to be too much of a hassle for most people and most games. All that being said, I highly, highly recommend trying ortholinear for gaming (and typing). If you want to try a smaller otholinear board for gaming, I would recommend a 50% like the Preonic with 2x2u spacebar support, or RGBKB’s Pan keyboard. If you want to bump it up to 60%, the Boardwalk pcb offers several excellent layout options.

Your opinions on upgrading, as well as low-budget or setups working with limited opportunity are extremely refreshing in this tech world where you always seem to start to feel behind everyone else because your spec is 2 gen's old. Anyway, new sub, good work man!

My favourite series by far

you know what mate, I generally dont care about people being nice to those of us who grew up in southern parts of asia but you handled it very well, just acceptance of limitations and decent use of available resources. No pity or insult, generally reactions seem to be from one of those lol. I remember having lived in houses like that. When I first came to the US I once spent like 3 weeks without lunch just so I could buy a tablet and test some stuff (I was by no means strapped for cash but that was outside my budget), far cry from me having a 3090 right now lol. Cheers to you my man.

love these videos; your audience seem to have some of the nicest setups i see around on youtube to be honest

The keyboard position at 6:20 you're talking about started to become popular back in the CRT monitor era, though back then that was with the keyboard sitting on your lap. Done mostly to have more room for your big monitor and to have room to move your mouse.

This just inspired me to clean up my own setup. Thanks Ali, great video

LETSGOOOOOO I CAN'T BELIEVE I GOT REVIEWED Can't wait for you to join the sim racing community! And for the Mode 65 I love it, I'm using lubed reflex linears switches and PBT Notion from Biip and it's been the best typing experience I've ever had. Unfortuantely they stopped production but they do have a new 75% coming out!

These desk setup videos really inspired my current setup, and honestly I feel a lot better about my current setup. I might include mine the next time you do a video on fan submitted setups :D

I love your setup reviews - Ed from Tech Source has cool setups featured, but only reviews like 4-5 setups and has unhelpful or superficial criticisms on the setups- yours are always very respectful and also truly helpful when needed. This is appreciated, and I hope you make this a consistent set of episodes😎

I totally get ya with the desktop icons! The only things I have on my desktop are apps I use often or things I'm currently working on. Other than that, I try to keep it as clean as possible.

21:29 I relate to Ali here. I didn't think that would happen.

Totally agree with deskto icons, its so stressful for me seeing all those, at least group them in folders lol

You raised some interesting points in this video. I think I'll definitely implement that desktop icon one you kept drilling. Not sure why I have them all there anyways tbh. Great vid!

Really really love these kinda vids Hands down one of the most generous vids I have ever seen.

I was watching the next-latest setup review just yesterday! Was hoping for a new one soon and I guess I got my wish lol. Thanks for the banger content 👊

Loved the video as always On the 40% keyboard note: One does program a layout solely for gaming purposes with numbers to the sides of wha you'd use for movement and interaactions etc

People used to tilt their keyboard inwards due to having limited space on LAN setups. It can also enable your thumb and index finger easier access to more keys.

I don't think the desktop icon flood is entirely intentional. Sometimes when you don't prevent installers from creating them actively they'll just spam your desktop. But honestly, what are we even doing with desktop icons anymore? Programs you want in quick access you'd add to the taskbar anyway, everything else is just clutter. And (for me anyway) the desktop is hidden behind multiple program windows at all times, to the point that it doesn't even make sense for me to pick a background image 😛

Great video, dude, thoroughly enjoyed it. Even got the Zaunkoenig M2K review lined up next!

Great! Got the same setup with the Vertical case mod 20:19 (4000D airflow I think), but with Nr200p. It works and thermals were great. with the vertical GPU and bottom 240 Radiator in a Complete Vertical case, No more worries about the weird rad placement. Complete identical to meshilicious ssupd and nzxt as the Back panel were place at the bottom.

his reaction at the messy desktops and the vlc and geforce experience shortcuts is hilarious😂

I just LOVE your attitude man ... could listen to you the whole day 👍👍

How that guy uses his sim setup is how I watch stuff while laying in bed because my desk is right next to it 😆

I think the reason people have insane keyboard tilt is so that their whole arm upto their elbow is on the desk and nothing it hanging off, personally I just use the arm rests on my chair they're adjustable which is really nice

Dude, I've been part of your channel since not too long, from the day I decided I need to step up my work environment at home, and build my first PC. You were my inspiration and I went for Kolink Rocket case . I have custom made oak wood desk I have been working for over 20 days. I am days away from finishing. I've put a lot of work into this desk. Main feature is I have mounted two aluminium shelves underneath for ps4 and my current notebook which is the Asus GX501. There is some unique cable menegment you will find as well. Definitely something not generic. Otherwise I love your videos. The content has awesome presentation to it. Greetings from Poland!

i've come across your channel rather recently when deciding on what new mouse/mousepad to buy and i've been hooked ever since. really awesome job at conveying information and keeping it entertaining! :)

Haha haha that talk of the icons on their desktops. That's not me at all.....😂😂😂

Ali's face says alot, without actually saying anything 21:31

Him trying to describe looking at many icons on the screen is like when the workers in Severance try to explain the numbers on the screen lol

You lost me at Pepsi Max 😂😂😂😂. Great vid as always!

Sick video man inspires me to make my setup better

Another fun one! I should've popped mine in here with how many you went over, good stuff!

He actually had me with that pepsi and coke debate. I was like no please dont tell me you dont have good soda taste. Now I just like your content even more lmao.

Been using a dactyl manuform for a while that is about the equivalent of a 40% keyboard. I don't really miss anything with the layer shifts available. For example instead of reaching up and moving my wrist/palm to hit 1,2,3,4 etc I hold down a layer shift with my thumb, and asdfg becomes 12345 while qwert becomes f1, f2, f3, f4, f5. Other things include a gaming layer toggle with crouch and jump buttons under my thumb to avoid having to do finger yoga while crouching and walking forward for example. Much less movement of the entire hand, and in the end, quicker as well as more comfortable for me. If you ever go down the custom keyboard/qmk rabbit hole, I'm excited to see what you come up with and of course I'm happy to help too. The community is really supportive in general.

Desktop icon offender??? LOL! You killed me with that one.

tbh i'm with you with the desktop icons, i just like a clean background

thanks for the feature! don’t worry about the teammates, the mic is closer while playing

This is the best video of setup review I've ever seen 😂

I wish you do this often. I love your usual content but I also like looking at people's setups. 😁

I'm with you Ali, clean desktops only! Hurts my brain to see all the shortcuts haha.

It's always a pleasure to watch one of these.

Yeah, I've been gaming on 40s for a while now, took some time to adjust, but overall I don't really feel any difference vs something bigger; sometimes I obviously need to rebind stuff - but I would be doing that anyway.

These videos always help me find away to make my setup slightly better every video

Actually like my desktop with some icons. Makes me feel like I'm looking at a computer screen. When it's empty, I feel dull and just think that I am looking at a picture. 😅 Loved the vid!

The sim-racing set up was my favorite. Such a creative layout

him talking about monitor placement, Mine pretty much in my face sniffing pixels LMFAOO

I'm with you with desktop icons. There are so many other ways to get to stuff. I'll have maybe 1 icon for my Home directory, everything else is either start bar or search

25:03 I was one scroll away from having my setup reviewed lmao! anyways, keep up the amazing content, I always enjoy watching :D

I love how he casually dropped $320 on a mouse.

Great vid as always Optimum! Quick question: how’s your experience with superglides and rougher pads? More in terms of durability, curious if the skates get scratched/worn, and if the pad gets any slow spots. Thanks!!

The content in this channel is just on point

24:40 this is what ive been saying for YEARS. this guy knows his stuff. respect.

Thanks so much for the feature Ali! I can confirm the fans are setup correctly ☺️. And the wrist rest. It's the Delta Hub one. So it has a glider on the bottom of it easy to move around on the mouse pad. To further a bit more in the streaming side the cameras I use are the Sony A6000 and the Sony A7iii. GoXLR with a Shure SM7B and a 16 key under desk mounted Stream Deck ☺️.

I really wish you'd make a video with the Mo-Ra 3 or external radiators in general. I think they look sick and want to hear your thoughts on them.

15:05 It's a clothes pin!! We used them back in the olden days to hang dry clothes. Honestly don't think most kids today would recognize one😂.

Pro tip. Hide all shortcuts by right clicking on desktop, hovering over "view", and unchecking "show desktop icons". Anything on your desktop will still be accessible from file explorer, but you won't cause Optimum anxiety. :)

brilliant series. dont let us wait another 6 months please haha! :D

5:39 it's not the microphone that sounds bad, its the room. In a well treated room being a bit further away can also sound good especially in a studio environment when recording vocals for music. But that also depends on the kind of microphone you use and also what you use the mic for. In most cases being close is better.

I don't have an issue with shortcut icons on the desktop, as long as they are organized neatly. It's a nice temporary working space for files as well, so of course I'll be using it.

dude that graveyard joke had me crying 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Thanks ali. I did do the setup myself, using birthday and Christmas money. I started gaming on a $500 prebuilt when i was 10 so its a big upgrade.

You should do another one of these, great video!

your vidoes deeserve wayyy more views. you are my favorite youtuber

interesting to see how different people's tastes are. the one at 10:30 was by far my favorite

I agree with you at the desktop icons. I do not use any for years now. xD

Your take on Pepsi and Coca Cola is on point 🤌

Dude the best parts of this video is you dissing them desktop icons. More icons people! :D

FINALLY OMG I love these man

You have the best reactions to these

Missed that dope stream deck holder second setup from colin. That was sick imo

The OCD of the desktop shortcuts gets me as well, especially when they're not even ALIGNED TO GRID! 🤯

that last guy had a certified city view my guy. idk what it is about it, it just hit right

Can't wait for the M2K review, I've been using it for nearly a year

20:56 now we know why he have bed there🤣

many 40% keyboards capitalize on QMK features and the bottom row is almost exclusively layer buttons - you toggle or shift up and down layers like a caps lock, but turn the layout to numbers, characters, hell you could have a dedicated gaming layer and remap all the buttons to whatever you need them to be

Ok you got me finally, after all the title and thumbnail changes lol

that setup in the bed is perfect if you have a broken leg/fot very smart :D

I am 100% in agreement on the desktop icons issue. Nothing beats a clean desktop.

I have the new 16 inch MacBook Pro as well and couldn't help but notice you using it here. It's such a tremendous machine, glad to see you're still rocking it. Do you ever use it for video editing or nah? I like seeing some tech tubers in the PC gaming space using Apple products. Too many are quick to shit on Apple despite the great laptops and desktops they've been releasing recently.

You are not alone with that desktop icons anxiety thing xD, having shortcuts on my desktop or even taskbar makes me feel like my computer will not work fine and the pc will be angry at me loool... I have all the shortcuts in start menu, nothing in taskbar and nothing on desktop.

Cool video ! Waiting for the ultralight mouse video 😉 (300€ hurt)

Honey get in here, Optimum posted!

Hi Ali :) so i recently upgraded my mouse to a gpro wireless and i’m really happy with it. Though i was wondering about how i would clean it without damaging it. I have ocd so i care alot about hygiene and that everything is clean :). I used to clean my old mouse with some bamboo wipes but i have no idea if i can clean my gpro wireless with them. Enjoy ur content alot keep up the good work! :)

18:32 dimming the twitter portion of the screen to prevent epilepsy/seizures what a legend

4:25 - Very nice of you sending that message to him. I'd flip if I got one from you. 15:30 - I agree, the most I have 10 icons on my desktop.

that 3rd setup, although his setup may be low cost, has more followers and subscribers than most of the streamers who have overkill setups.

I have a split kb and I just use layers to get numbers. It's not a problem if you use a thumb key to get to that layer

Desktop icons placement is underrated!