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Re:Atreus: My Custom Keyboard by WindRider011 on Sunday August 31, 2014 @01:55PM (#8249869)
As expensive as it is, I've found a Kinesis to be ideal ergonomically, but also to be by no means the end of the story. The design reminds me of a flatter Kinesis keyboard with an angle, due to the split in the middle.

The other part of the story was getting rid of qwerty, and using colemak instead (not Dvorak, which I'm still modestly confused about.) I found that qwerty was modestly uncomfortable to type with due to the dated understanding of how often keys are actually used while typing, which wasn't fixed by the keyboard alone.

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Re:Atreus: My Custom Keyboard by technomancy on Sunday August 31, 2014 @05:56PM (#8250505)
The Kinesis Advantage and Ergodox are both fantastic designs, but they are untenable for people like myself who travel a lot and work from coffee shops and parks. (The Kinesis would also be a lot more appealing if you could swap the key switches with a tactile option.) I wrote a bit about how this compares to those designs on my blog a while back: http://technomancy.us/173
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Re:Atreus: My Custom Keyboard by Adrock on Sunday August 31, 2014 @07:13PM (#8250773)
It is possible to switch the switches on the Kinesis to Cherry MX blues, but it is a lot of work:

http://t.co/OyjGCdwvGN

That said, it is awesome (and loud).

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