Most of the weird-looking keyboards have the same QWERTY layout. If you can touch type, they don’t take long to get used to. I personally don’t get the people that change their keyboards to DVORAK or COLEMAK (Not sure why I shout those names, just the way I tend to write them). More power to them, but I think if I changed the layouts like that it would take me months to get back up to speed.
Once you try a different keyboard, and like it, you wonder what else you’ve been missing out on.
The worst thing for me is not being able to try out boards unless a friend has one. Where I live in the US they don’t have them in stores to try out either. Hopefully someone here will be able to help you out. I just jumped in and bought one many years ago and have been happy with the decision, but your mileage may vary.
Looks very nice.
People are so weird. Their online presence means so much to so many. I want to reply to all of them, just switch instances. As important as they feel, nobody is going to bat an eye when they move, yet they feel that they are really losing something if they do.
Ah, that was a confusing perspective.
I’m not sure that I’d like a convex shape, but I love to see it. Nice work.
You can look up studies, most say that the coleman layout is more efficient, finger travel and what not. I haven’t used either one, so I was just putting out some snark.
Thanks for the reply. Now I’m going to be fighting the urge to buy a 360. I think I can talk myself out of it because I have big hands and that is one of the things that I like about the Ergodox. The Kinesis keyboards just look so well made though.
That’s COLEMAK. The more intelligent Dvorak.
I like my ergodox, but I don’t think anyone would call it low profile. How do/did you like the Kinesis? I’ve been interested in them for years, but can’t wrap my head around the price. And I can’t help thinking I’d be typing the top row with my fingernails.
I almost ordered an Orange Pi5 yesterday. I realized I still have a couple RPi4s around, and I’d just be spending money on something I really don’t need. I’m waiting for a good excuse though, the reviews looked pretty solid. What are your impressions?
I tried out Colemak for a couple months about 10-15 years ago. I just could not get my stupid head to wrap around it. Knock on wood I haven’t had any pain issues, but I’ve been using an ergodox since I got one of those group buy ones that I had to solder together. I actually bought a stenography keyboard recently. I’m trying to spend a little bit each day learning it, but I expect that to take years.