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So, no numpad, right? Love the concept, just not sure I could use DAWs, Unreal Engine, and Blender without the ol' numpad.
So, no numpad, right? Love the concept, just not sure I could use DAWs, Unreal Engine, and Blender without the ol' numpad.
Usually keyboards like this have different modes/layers. There's no fixed numpad but by pressing some key or combination, the keyboard layout changes to a numpad (or whatever else you want).
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Usually keyboards like this have different modes/layers. There's no fixed numpad but by pressing some key or combination, the keyboard layout changes to a numpad (or whatever else you want).
I could see it working, just think it would take a lot of getting accustomed to and unlearning decades-worth of muscle memory. Super tempted.
I'm only on day three with a moonlander but it hasn't been that bad so far. I'm up to 60wpm now so I'm past the part where I felt unproductive. I've settled a bit more into a layout I'm happy with today too.
Does anybody know something similar, with a trackball? I got interested in these split ergo keyboards when I saw the new Kinesis models [0] but unfortunately they don't ship to my location. I came across the Charybdis [1] and I loved the idea but I'm not capable enough to assemble it myself and the guy making them has a many week lead time, so I'd love an equivalent. [0]: https://kinesis-ergo.com/keyboards/advantage3…
The UHK has a trackball-module. https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/product/trackball
The "split" aspect of these keyboards is definitely more comfortable imo - I ended up going with a Dygma Raise (which I'm very happy with!), because I wasn't interested in learning ortholinear. But I've remained curious about whether ortholinear is actually better, or if it's just a thing that a lot of split keyboards happen to have.
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I wish there was a showroom or something I could visit to try them all out and see what fits my hands. I don't mind dropping $300 on a keyboard once, but I don't want to buy 10 different keyboards just to try them and then have to sell the ones I don't want.
I have long wished there was a keyboard rental service. Trouble is that an ortho layout can take months to get used to. I am still 20% slower on an ortho board than I was on a laptop keyboard, but the comfort is worth it, especially for shoulder pain.
I ended up quitting my coding job shortly after getting the Moonlander so the pain has sort of resolved itself anyway as I’m no longer doing massive coding sessions. But I’m glad I’ve got it for the future.
At first I found it massively frustrating. The default layout is quite frankly ridiculous. The only way I could get myself to stick with it is by making the keyboard layout as close to the British Magic Keyboard as possible. For anyone interested, this is my set up, that took me a good few iterations to get to:
https://configure.zsa.io/moonlander/layouts/KZ7aa/latest/0
Maybe I’m “doing it wrong” but I think once I’ve got used to using it as a regular QWERTY keyboard I can then maybe look at changing the layouts and doing the fancy stuff. The fact that they ship it with such a crazy default layout is bewildering to me.
I’m still nowhere near as fast with it as the standard apple keyboard but I imagine I’ll get there naturally after a year or so. I can do longer sessions on it now before I have to pick up the laptop in frustration. And I’ll be sticking with it because the health benefits really are worth it.
Does ortholinear/columnar actually feel better? I feel like I see many comments about how there's a bit of a learning curve that can be overcome after a while, but very few comments about whether overcoming that learning curve is actually worth it and it's really more comfortable. Is it supposed to be better for your wrists? Or your fingers? The "split" aspect of these keyboards is definitely more comfortable imo - I…
Ortholinear is my favorite layout because I can shift some keys down one row (such as Z), and then it perfectly suits my hands.
Does ortholinear/columnar actually feel better? I feel like I see many comments about how there's a bit of a learning curve that can be overcome after a while, but very few comments about whether overcoming that learning curve is actually worth it and it's really more comfortable. Is it supposed to be better for your wrists? Or your fingers? The "split" aspect of these keyboards is definitely more comfortable imo - I…