submitted 1 year ago by garretble@lemmy.world to c/ergomechkeyboards@lemmy.world

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I had some wrist issues a couple of years ago and that pushed me to go to the split keyboard route.

I really love this keyboard. I’m someone who actually quite likes the low profile, laptop style keys, so I didn’t know if I’d enjoy this set up. But I quickly grew to love it.

Bright lights and flashing stuff isn’t really my thing, so I’m really glad I was able to find these keycaps that’s just look nice and clean. Underneath are the most silent cherry reds I could find (I’m also not a big fan out loud keyboards. Blasphemy, I know! 😃).

And for my biggest nerd cred: I’m so glad I can save my precious Dvorak layout straight to the keyboard. No longer have to deal with Windows’ layout switching.

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[-] overby@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Like your setup. I’m more a smaller keyboard type - but it’s a nice setup :-)

[-] garretble@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Thanks!

Do you have an example of the smaller keyboards you are interested in?

[-] overby@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Right now I'm using a Corne keyboard with a 42-key layout. Working on a new Corne with 36/34-key layout.

Something like this layout: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brianoverby/keymapSVG/main/svg/keymap_3x5-2.svg

[-] garretble@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh wow, and I thought my keyboard was tiny!

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