Just got my first ergonomic keyboard! Coming from a Keychron K2 and now using a Kineses Advantage 360 Pro, which I picked up refurbished for a nice discount.
I’ve been using it exclusively to type for a week, and today I used my M2 MacBook Pro keyboard for the first time in a week.
To the person that decided computer keyboards should be staggered instead of ortholinear, I hate you.
I know there is history to the keyboards being adapted from typewriters, but I realized I’ve been hitting the entire bottom row of keys with the wrong finger. For example, I’ve been hitting Z with my ring finger instead of my little finger.
I could give up the thumb clusters, but I really wish Apple would give you an ortholinear keyboard option in their laptops.
I also keep hitting the wrong key on the Kineses because all the keys are so much closer now than I’m used to. It takes so much less movement and I love it!
Going full ergo is great, and I also think it’s sad that we’re stuck with legacy keyboards. Though I don’t like typing on ortho unless it’s also split (and preferably a little tented), the columns don’t line up with my fingers unless I keep my forearms close together. Staggered keyboards at least have diagonal-ish finger movements, even though the angle is different for left and right hands.
Interesting. The only type of ortho keyboard I’ve used is a tented split ortho keyboard. Didn’t consider that I might not prefer ortho without the other features