All I want in life is for someone to make a variation of the razer orbweaver that's a half of a keyboard, shaped around the idea of only having it be used for gaming or office shortcuts
If I'm going to use only a half of a keyboard trust me I don't need to be using the other half. That hand is busy using operating a mouse. I don't want to have an ocd trip whenever I bump my keyboard because the two halves aren't where they're supposed to be in relation to each other
As an owner of the diverge 3 (purchased direct from unikeyboard.io) I would say it is much better than any of the "ergo"s. I am a programmer and many of my colleagues have various ergodox, ergodox ez and a couple oddballs. I have 2 of the ergo owners viing for the diverge now that they have seen how perfect the fit of the key layout is.
Hey @rcmosher, I actually like it... I use the "high" button as a special function button (I'm on linux) and I use it to start i3lock to lock my laptop. I'm working on a site to view/edit a keyboard layout and if I get that working soon, i'll report back to show you my layout.
I will say that I strive to arrange my keyboard to be close to the "no more than 1 key away" method by using layers. I have made changes in addition to the keyboard also. I switched to using the "workman programmers" layout, instead of qwerty.
Happy to answer anymore questions you have too!
Oh lord!
If a new revision of the Diverge kit ever comes onto Massdrop, I will not even think to dump all my cash to grab a bunch of them.
Definitely gonna buy it here than to get it directly, definitely keeps my sanity without having to track for updates.
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The Dactyl is no Ergodox. Maybe inspired by it (amongst others) but naming it ergodox is really wrong (and understatement on top of it). I am building one currently, it's lot of fun.
The design of the Diverge makes more sense, imo, because thumbs have relatively little dexterity for the purpose of typing. Think about it — while every other finger on the hand is moving more or less in the direction most natural to it, thumbs actually have to move sideways, and strike keys with the side of the fingertip rather than with the the pad. There's a reason spacebars are traditionally the largest keys on the board by far. That little keypad for each thumb on the Ergodox forces the thumbs to be responsible for much more than they should.
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