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bradmoor, in Long term ergo-mech keyboards reviews

I’ve been using my 34 key ferris sweep for a couple of years now and I love it.

I have a charybdis nano that I need to wire up, it makes me really appreciate the tighter choc spacing on the sweep, that and the low profile keys are doing a lot for comfort IMO

zibby, in Long term ergo-mech keyboards reviews
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I use a moonlander absolutely love it. Been using it for ~3 years. I have no plans on changing this keyboard. Ive macros on it to manage a lot of my tmux and ssh sessions which makes server admin a breeze. Only minor problem I have with this keyboard is I have never used the left big red button, could probably add a macro there for something though.

markstos, in Bonus of having to order 5 PCBs free keyboards for your friends ❤️

How did the friends like it?

sudo42, in Long term ergo-mech keyboards reviews

Been using a Matias Ergo Pro for several years now. Love the chonky CTRL, OPTION, CMD and Spacebar keys.

Before purchase, I read reviews that some of the keys would tend to stick. Indeed, after a few months, the ‘F’ key decided that it was going to work according to its own plan. So the reviews were right. A good keyboard if they would just fix their d*mn key issues.

Working on building a new custom keyboard to replace it.

markstos,

Are you able to pop off the keycaps and see what’s going on underneath the sticking key?

sudo42,

I’ll try that.

markstos,

A dedicated keycap puller tool may be helpful.

www.amazon.com/…/ref=asc_df_B075CZCTXM?tag=bingsh…

gianni, in Long term ergo-mech keyboards reviews
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I’ve been using a Kinesis Advantage for over a decade now. I’ve tried most of the ergo options out there and I keep coming back to the Advantage. It’s the only one that gets the thumb keys right in my opinion.

I currently run a heavily modified version done by the guys at Upgrade Keyboards.

corvett, (edited ) in Long term ergo-mech keyboards reviews

I’ve been using the Piantor by Beekeeb for over a year now. I started with the 42 key version, but after a time broke off the outer columns and am using 32 keys.

I’d really only change my daily driver to go wireless, with something like the Chocofi.

That’s not to say I don’t dabble with smaller keyboards just for fun 😊 I use a 16-key on and off, but I’m not very fast on it yet.

maso27, in Long term ergo-mech keyboards reviews

I built a Sofle RGB a couple years ago, and loved it so much I built a second for work. Sofle RGB

Then I made a dactyl manuform mini (6 x 4) because I could make the key layout pretty much match the Sofles. Dactyl Manuform MiniI didn’t really like dactyl at first, with Amazon’s cheapest XDA keycaps, but when I replaced them with something more interesting, CSA they were called, I was a lot happier.

If I had used quieter switches on the dactyl, that would be my work keyboard. But as it is I’ve got my work Sofle tented to maybe 15 degrees or so and really love it!

I don’t see any good reason to change, and wind up swapping between the Sofle and the Dactyl at home depending on the application. Dactyl is terrible for gaming, but way more fun if I’m doing a long coding session.

bitwyze, in Long term ergo-mech keyboards reviews

I’ve been using a moonlander for a couple years now. I love it, but I’ve been toying with the idea of building my own with a trackball in the thumb cluster

finestnothing, in Long term ergo-mech keyboards reviews

I’ve been rocking a technik with purpz and mbk legends for about 2 years now, will probably stick with it until it gives out and replacement parts are no longer available. Low pro, hotswap, metal case, LEDs (never use them though), etc, it’s great imo. My raise and lower layers are heavily riced for both my wm (bspwm) and having all my common programming symbols easily accessible.

I’ve been wanting to switch to a staggered low pro split board for ergo reasons but haven’t had much time to look unfortunately

markstos, in Mantis v0.3.3 Update

Looks like a supervillain keyboard. Very creative.

cairn, in Long term ergo-mech keyboards reviews

I’ve been using my bad wings (v1) for over a year, and I didn’t think I’d ever give it up. It’s a 36-key mono-body split with a cirque track pad in the middle, and I use it with a miryoku layout. I used it as my only board for several months after I first built it, but I was constantly using it for travel and project computers (it’s perfect for tinkering with raspberry pis), so I put another board at my desktop computer and now my bad wings goes wherever I go for my laptop, or hot-desking, or projects, or anything else. I’ve even used the track pad on it as my only mouse for days at a time.

I recently bought a bad wings 2 as a back up and so that I could convert my first one to wireless with ZMK. All in all, it’s been a fantastic board for me, and I’ll definitely be using it for the foreseeable future.

TheAgeOfSuperboredom, in Long term ergo-mech keyboards reviews

I’ve been using a Glove80 full time for over a year and I love it! It helped with my wrist pain too. I’ve not used any other ergonomic keyboards other than the Microsoft one, but I’m very happy with this one and see no reason to change.

ThrowawayPermanente, in Long term ergo-mech keyboards reviews

I’ve had a Manuform Dactyl 6x4 for about 3 years, it’s fantastic and I’ll definitely try to get another one if this one ever breaks in a way that makes repair impossible. Shoutout to Ibnu from the other site, thanks bro

babeuh, in Long term ergo-mech keyboards reviews

Coming from a normal 60%, I have a Sweep keyboard (34 keys) that I’ve been using for a bit over a year. It’s overall been great and I prefer it by a large margin to the 60% but the one thing that has been annoying is playing video games, though I’m sure if I put the effort in it would be no problem after a couple months.

I don’t plan to change keyboards for a while unless it somehow breaks. Perhaps I’d try a steno keyboard but I’m quite happy with the modified Colemak-DHm layout I have on this one.

finestnothing,

Plover can make any keyboard work as a steno board, haven’t messed around with it since early covid, but it’s great foss software

babeuh,

Hm yeah maybe I should try that, thanks for the recommendation :)

recursive_recursion, in Mantis v0.3.3 Update
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this looks fucking wild and I kinda love it?

if I owned this I’d change the color scheme but the build overall looks pretty swag🤙

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