I’m just a newb when it comes to high grade keyboards, but these things look wild, and I kind of want to try one.

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    1 month ago

    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.

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      1 month ago

      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.

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        1 month ago

        Uh oh I’m getting that keyboard itch again. I think my max qwerty was higher my normal was fine, like 100-110 is my comfort zone. Colemak was so fluid, and I do still get RSI if I type a lot of my non-custom layout qwerty…

        Maybe a good christmas present for myself.

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          1 month ago

          Any PCB that’s compatible with QMK firmware (and maybe others, but QMK is easy & the most well-known) should be able to be flashed with any layout, so even if you get tired of Colemak, you can change it to whatever you want. :)

          Edit: You can also get hot-swap sockets that allow you to change your switches without desoldering anything.