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what are the advantages of ortholinear ?
by HugoDaniel 6y ago
what are the advantages of ortholinear ?
- fouric 6y agoPurely medial movement of the fingers (which is more ergonomic) as opposed to the lateral motions that fingers have to make for a staggered-row keyboard.
- svrb 6y agoI don't understand this. My fingers don't move straight away from my wrist unless I've got them squeezed together, which doesn't seem like a useful way to type.
- fouric 6y agoReplace "purely" with "mostly", if you want to be pedantic. Even if ortholinear keyboards don't completely eliminate lateral motion, there's still a rather large reduction in it - which is what matters.
- rgoulter 6y agoI find it much more comfortable. A standard row-staggered keyboard is terribly asymmetric. With your hands on home row, the distances to the modifier keys are different for left/right; but even the distances to the inner columns of keys aren't symmetric. That asymmetry makes it uncomfortable to use the right-hand modifier keys; and more awkward to type, in general. It's fairly hard to accurately touch-type the number-row with a standard row-staggered keyboard; but this is more accessible with an ortholinear keyboard. Moreover, ortholinear keyboards (because they're so niche) tend to have firmware customisation, which allows for some improvements. (e.g. allowing different keyboard 'layers').