Re:Review of the Kinesis Advantage360 Professional
by nixlim on Saturday October 22, 2022 @06:05PM
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I used kinesis advantage for about two months. Ended switching to Ultimate Hacking Keyboard and have never been happier - haven't switched the keyboard since - about 4 years now. Coding on Kinesis was just such a pain in terms of usual keys - braces et all: weird, up down arrows: weird. I thought I would adjust after two months, but did not happen for me. YMMV
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Re:Review of the Kinesis Advantage360 Professional
by philsnow on Sunday October 23, 2022 @06:20AM
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I'm convinced they used such a weird placement of some things like that to prompt/goad people into exploring the built-in remapping.
The bizarre separation of the arrow keys into left-right and up-down on two different hands was the very first thing I fixed. Now the bottom four keys on my right keywell are left, down, up, right (and I moved the square brackets to the left hand where the left/right were).
(This isn't really ideal because now [] requires a lot of finger travel to type compared to how often I type them. I was excited for the 360 supporting ZMK but I've sworn off bluetooth where it can be avoided, so I'm probably going to just keep my plain-old Advantage until it dies and see if they're "fixed" the 360 line.)