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1. An ortho keyboard, e.g. crkbd fixes this. This made me finally touch-type after 20 years of using keyboards. 2. Yes :) 3. You do have great choice between
by the_gipsy 6y ago
1. An ortho keyboard, e.g. crkbd fixes this. This made me finally touch-type after 20 years of using keyboards.
2. Yes :)
3. You do have great choice between splitting and tenting and wrist rests.
4. The keyboard in question has trackpoint, trackball, and trackpad accessories.
Bottom line is that once you enter the realm of unconventional keyboards, you will want a very custom one. You are right in that. This one is quite customizable, but there is always something you want different (a.k.a. endgame is a lie).
- varrock 6y agoA comment above mentions that the benefits of an ortho board are not worth the learning curve of typing on one. Would you mind addressing the benefits you've found as somebody who is endorsing them?
- bbojan 6y agoSee my reply to it above. I feel this is highly individually dependent and you have to try it yourself.
- the_gipsy 6y agoThe curve is indeed steep! I had to force myself to only use the ortho keeb for a week or two (resist using the laptop keyboard). Since then I'm sailing ortho only, so much that I sold some very expensive staggered keyboard, because I know I will not use staggered anymore if I can. The benefits were obvious immediately, even while not touch-typing yet. Every key is assigned to a finger without ambiguity. Except for some shortcut combinations, but even then it feels clear. You use your pinky more which I think is good (I also play the guitar). The number one advantage is that my hand is never lost anymore. With staggered, every other word or command makes my hand "float" somewhere away from the "home row/keys", with a subsequent mistype or look-down. This does not happen anymore.