The defaults of most games cannot be used comfortably or things just do not work (like the double assignment for the y/ctrl key).
But why the hell is it only 3 feet? So I can't really tilt the keyboard very far (maybe about 7 °) without a corner hanging in the air and then everything starts to shake when I type. The tenting of the keyboard is good, stable metal, it is well made.It would be better if they were attached to the keyboard I think its strange that the "Wrist Rests" are separate, they slip again and again and you fiddle with things all the time.The others are strictly "useless" and are not used. There are 6 buttons in total, but you can actually only reach 2 of them comfortably with your thumb. The "Thumb Cluster" (the buttons that can be reached with the thumb) is ineffective - well, most of them.You have to get used to it if you use a "normal" keyboard again - which leads to strange mistakes there.When typing those keystrokes in the shell, this often leads to errors and it somehow feels "slowed down".
Especially when working in the shell, you often need CTRL-A or CTRL-E - and you have to wait a few hundred milliseconds before you can press the 2nd key so that this is recognized correctly. That doesn't sound bad at first, if you then need CTRL, you have to wait a bit. In my layout, CTRL and y are on the same key, if you type briefly, if a y is typed, if you hold the key, CTRL is pressed. Because you don't have "enough" keys for the entire German layout, you often have to assign keys twice.I would particularly like to have cursor keys in "inversed T" shape and that is unfortunately not possible here I now notice that I use the cursor keys a lot more on the Kinesis Freestyle than on the Ergodox where I always switched to mouse / trackpad when I wanted to place the cursor. The small number of buttons - I always miss one or the other.However, there are a few minor "problems" (complaining about first world problems here ) that annoyed me: I my opinion the "Cherry MX Brown" offer a good compromise, so that you also can use it in the office without getting everyone upset due to the noise. I got Cherry's keyswitches and they are really beyond any doubt, although the "color" must of course correspond to personal taste. The build quality is really good for a Kickstarter project.
This is important for me, as the use of "normal" Keyoards caused paint (the motorcycle accident a few years ago left its mark). Because this also significantly reduces the strain on the wrists and shoulders. Because the keyboard is split, you can adjust it to your needs for your personal work - that's great and also indispensable for me. I've been using the Ergodox-EZ (s) for more than 5 years now and I really can't complain so far. The Ergodox-EZ was the first keyboard that I really used for years and it showed me what is really important when it comes to keyboard for my daily use. Since I actually spend 75% of my time on / in front of a keyboard, this is an important topic for me. I'm a big fan of the Ergodox EZ keyboard and have already written a hymn of praise here.
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