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This is not true. What makes you think that?

naikrovek 8y ago
Just picture how your wrists need to hold your hands so that fingers extend straight up from the home row. Unless your rib cage is infinitely thin, or your arms infinitely long, your arms are going to come together on that keyboard at angles that diverge strongly from the line between your solarplexus and the center of your monitor(s). Your wrists have to twist your hands enough to make your fingers point parallel to that imaginary line. There is AT LEAST one very good reason that ortholinear keyboards have not taken off, and I've just described it.
- dkersten 8y ago
  I use a Kinesis Advantage2, which has a split ortholinear keyboard and it is by far the most comfortable keyboard I’ve ever typed on. After switching, I really never want to go back to a staggared keyboard ever again. None of what you describe is the case for me (although, its worth adding that the Advantage keyboards are split layout ergonomic keyboards).
  - naikrovek 8y ago
    This is the keyboard alignment I was talking about: https://i.imgur.com/IiAGGULh.jpg https://i.imgur.com/IiAGGULh.jpg I don't see how your keyboard could legitimately use the word "linear" in it's description in any way. All I see are curved key "cups" and nothing linear at all.
    - dkersten 8y ago
      The vertical alignment is in a straight line, but yes absolutely, the curvature of the keys likely has a role to play to make it as comfortable as it is. But if you look at the keys from the top, they are in a straight grid like the keyboard you linked.
- miguelrochefort 8y ago
  I use a Kinesis Advantage. The keyboards is split into two angled ortholinear sections. It's the best layout I've ever used. Look at your staggered keyboard. The left and right sections are not even symmetrical. Put your fingers on the home row, then naturally extend them to the next row. You will see that they're all over the place. Staggered keys are a relic from typewriters, not an ergonomic design choice.
  - naikrovek 8y ago
    I was referring to this layout: https://i.imgur.com/IiAGGULh.jpg https://i.imgur.com/IiAGGULh.jpg That this keyboard and a kinesis can both call themselves "ortholinear" is just one of the many indicators of complete and total insanity amongst the mechanical keyboard community. There is nothing linear about a kinesis advantage.
- pvinis 8y ago
  Ortholinear goes very very well with split keyboards. that way you can put the left and right parts on an angle that your fingers follow. After using the ergodox and iris, I'm not going back to a "normal" keyboard ever again.

Just picture how your wrists need to hold your hands so that fingers extend straight up from the home row. Unless your rib cage is infinitely thin, or your arms infinitely long, your arms are going to come together on that keyboard at angles that diverge strongly from the line between your solarplexus and the center of your monitor(s). Your wrists have to twist your hands enough to make your fingers point parallel to that imaginary line. There is AT LEAST one very good reason that ortholinear keyboards have not taken off, and I've just described it.

dkersten 8y ago
I use a Kinesis Advantage2, which has a split ortholinear keyboard and it is by far the most comfortable keyboard I’ve ever typed on. After switching, I really never want to go back to a staggared keyboard ever again. None of what you describe is the case for me (although, its worth adding that the Advantage keyboards are split layout ergonomic keyboards).
- naikrovek 8y ago
  This is the keyboard alignment I was talking about: https://i.imgur.com/IiAGGULh.jpg https://i.imgur.com/IiAGGULh.jpg I don't see how your keyboard could legitimately use the word "linear" in it's description in any way. All I see are curved key "cups" and nothing linear at all.
  - dkersten 8y ago
    The vertical alignment is in a straight line, but yes absolutely, the curvature of the keys likely has a role to play to make it as comfortable as it is. But if you look at the keys from the top, they are in a straight grid like the keyboard you linked.
miguelrochefort 8y ago
I use a Kinesis Advantage. The keyboards is split into two angled ortholinear sections. It's the best layout I've ever used. Look at your staggered keyboard. The left and right sections are not even symmetrical. Put your fingers on the home row, then naturally extend them to the next row. You will see that they're all over the place. Staggered keys are a relic from typewriters, not an ergonomic design choice.
- naikrovek 8y ago
  I was referring to this layout: https://i.imgur.com/IiAGGULh.jpg https://i.imgur.com/IiAGGULh.jpg That this keyboard and a kinesis can both call themselves "ortholinear" is just one of the many indicators of complete and total insanity amongst the mechanical keyboard community. There is nothing linear about a kinesis advantage.
pvinis 8y ago
Ortholinear goes very very well with split keyboards. that way you can put the left and right parts on an angle that your fingers follow. After using the ergodox and iris, I'm not going back to a "normal" keyboard ever again.