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I am a big fan of the kinesis advantage keyboards but I really do wish they had an extra thumb key so you could have cmd, ctrl, and option keys on both sides.
No discussion about ergonomics is complete without a mention of the Svalboard[0], a spiritual successor to the DataHand you can actually purchase today. I'm not affiliated in any way, just a happy user who's career has been saved by the Svalboard when no other ergonomic keyboard could. [0] https://svalboard.com
Old school datahand user here, are you using the trackball version of The Svalboard? How does it work as a mouse replacement?
Reading reviews of this type of keyboard is really interesting to me because their use is such a subjective experience. I have found that the glove80 has far and away the most comfortable thumb cluster for my hands as well as the most comfortable positioning for my pinkies. I couldn’t make the corne variants work because tucking my thumbs hurt. The ergodox is too big. Even a keyboard like the ZSA Voyager just doesn’t…
If I'm reading your reply further down the page right then you only use two of the 6 keys. Is that right? For me, I think I'd want to use at least 4 or 5 keys in my thumb cluster before I could call it comfortable.
Yeah the glove thumb pad sucks. Those 2 keys furthest away are impossible with RSI. Surely it's obvious. I'm surprised they haven't refined them. Apart from that it's a great keyboard.