I had one of the ZSA moonlander split keyboards for a while and I loved parts of it. My RSI vanished.
1 - it was hard for me to use other keyboards that weren’t colemak
2 - in split, if I took my hand off to use the mouse I found it hard to find the home row again. It took me like 2 months to learn colemak but never clued into the home row the same way I can on a normal keyboard.
3 - I felt like it took up a lot of space, not good for small spaces.
As a fellow Colemak user who has used other layouts in the past, I have to wonder how many of the issues I have with my keyboard now are because of Colemak, since I didn’t seem to have them with Dvorak or Workman.
But maybe I’m just salty that my WPM never recovered fully after switching.
Only if you keep getting new ones though and doing it DIY is pretty good too. Don’t think I’d buy another keyboard again after building my current DIY one. Instead I’ll just be designing my own from what I’ve learned that I’ve liked with this current one.
I have a split ortholinear keyboard that I made with parts from Keebio, I fucking love it. It has really reduced wrist strain for me.
I have the Levinson V3, which is relatively cheap (this is an expensive hobby just FYI) if you want to get into keyboards.
I had one of the ZSA moonlander split keyboards for a while and I loved parts of it. My RSI vanished.
1 - it was hard for me to use other keyboards that weren’t colemak
2 - in split, if I took my hand off to use the mouse I found it hard to find the home row again. It took me like 2 months to learn colemak but never clued into the home row the same way I can on a normal keyboard.
3 - I felt like it took up a lot of space, not good for small spaces.
As a fellow Colemak user who has used other layouts in the past, I have to wonder how many of the issues I have with my keyboard now are because of Colemak, since I didn’t seem to have them with Dvorak or Workman.
But maybe I’m just salty that my WPM never recovered fully after switching.
Yeah custom keyboards get absurdly expensive very quickly.
Only if you keep getting new ones though and doing it DIY is pretty good too. Don’t think I’d buy another keyboard again after building my current DIY one. Instead I’ll just be designing my own from what I’ve learned that I’ve liked with this current one.