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I use a Kinesis Advantage Pro, which is a Cherry brown equipped ergonomic. It is fantastic. I used to use a Model M; also an old Sun; an old Next; a variety of
by jfb 14y ago
I use a Kinesis Advantage Pro, which is a Cherry brown equipped ergonomic. It is fantastic. I used to use a Model M; also an old Sun; an old Next; a variety of boutique mechanical keyboards (the HH, among others). For a variety of reasons, I've come back to the Kinesis. I have three; I lend one out to friends and coworkers who might want to try it.
I'm largely dissatisfied with the world of keyboards; I wish there were a better way to interact with my computer, and until such a time, that people would stop just getting by with whatever garbage the OEM decides to least common denominator them with.
- gmrple 14y agoAssuming you write code, how do you feel about the key remapping? I have seen people complain about the location of brackets and other keys; which is enough to keep me away.
- jfb 14y agoI've never noticed the brackets slowing me down; the only remaps I do are Caps to Ctrl-L (which can now be done on the Mac side) and Shift-R to Cmd. The big problem for me is that there's no way to create new modifier keys (I spend all my time in Emacs, and having a Hyper and Super would be really nice), but that's more a HID problem than a Kinesis one. A minor irritation is that the USB hub doesn't output sufficient amperage to be useful for anything. An even more minor irritation is that sometimes the keyboard will get confused and apply a modifier lock function, but because of some weird quirk will lock Meta rather than Shift, and my windows will go berzerk. It's a trivial state to escape from (I just hit Meta and Caps), and it doesn't happen often enough to rise to the level of I MUST FIX THIS NOW.