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I've been on the Kinesis Freestyle Blue for years and I love it. I paired it with a Logitech trackball that's apparently discontinued; I'm looking for a replace

I've been on the Kinesis Freestyle Blue for years and I love it. I paired it with a Logitech trackball that's apparently discontinued; I'm looking for a replacement as good. Their setup here is really close. Long term, what I really want in a split mechanical keyboard: trackballs on both sides, near the spacebar, with intuitive mouse triggers built in. Maybe even a trackpad on one side, trackball on the other. That would be slick. One input device.

richdougherty 5y ago
I'm loving the Kinesis Freestyle Pro recently. The Kinesis Freestyle range is a fairly normal keyboard layout, so it's not a huge change from a normal keyboard. But there's that fantastic wide split and a panel of helpful shortcuts on the left. The wide split is great for shoulders and the shortcut panel helps with cutting down on common multi-key movements (copy, paste, etc). The Pro steps up from the other Freestyles with mechanical keys and programmability. I'm using the programmability to remap some of the modifier keys for comfort. Combined with the panel of common shortcuts, it's much easier on my hands. A bonus of having a programmable keyboard is that you don't need to rebind keys in the OS, something that's not always possible to do in corporate environments. https://kinesis-ergo.com/shop/freestyle-pro/ https://kinesis-ergo.com/shop/freestyle-pro/
- pfkurtz 5y ago
  I did not know about the Pro, thanks for planting the seed of desire! I've yet to get into keyboard reprogramming, someday I'll take the plunge and learn to type efficiently. One thing I really love about the Freestyle is that, with the stands and hand rests, it actually sits very nicely in the lap, for when you want to sit in the living room with the laptop on a coffee table.
ZekeSulastin 5y ago
How far down the rabbit hole do you want to go? For example, https://old.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/comments/qkd9xe/scyllaballz_a_tractyl_manuform_with_oleds_roller https://old.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/comments/qkd9xe/s...
- pfkurtz 5y ago
  And there was a silence in Heaven about the space of an hour...

richdougherty 5y ago

I'm loving the Kinesis Freestyle Pro recently. The Kinesis Freestyle range is a fairly normal keyboard layout, so it's not a huge change from a normal keyboard. But there's that fantastic wide split and a panel of helpful shortcuts on the left. The wide split is great for shoulders and the shortcut panel helps with cutting down on common multi-key movements (copy, paste, etc). The Pro steps up from the other Freestyles with mechanical keys and programmability. I'm using the programmability to remap some of the modifier keys for comfort. Combined with the panel of common shortcuts, it's much easier on my hands. A bonus of having a programmable keyboard is that you don't need to rebind keys in the OS, something that's not always possible to do in corporate environments. https://kinesis-ergo.com/shop/freestyle-pro/ https://kinesis-ergo.com/shop/freestyle-pro/

pfkurtz 5y ago
I did not know about the Pro, thanks for planting the seed of desire! I've yet to get into keyboard reprogramming, someday I'll take the plunge and learn to type efficiently. One thing I really love about the Freestyle is that, with the stands and hand rests, it actually sits very nicely in the lap, for when you want to sit in the living room with the laptop on a coffee table.

ZekeSulastin 5y ago

How far down the rabbit hole do you want to go? For example, https://old.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/comments/qkd9xe/scyllaballz_a_tractyl_manuform_with_oleds_roller https://old.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/comments/qkd9xe/s...

pfkurtz 5y ago
And there was a silence in Heaven about the space of an hour...