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Keyboard that would help avoid fingers strain (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey there,

I've been doing a lot of typing lately on my shitty old Compaq keyboard (it has a good build quality, but keys require relatively much force to be pressed) and I experience some discomfort in my fingers.

Would anybody suggest any specific keyboard or keyboard type that would help me ease the strain? I know absolutely nothing about keyboards lol!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What did you mean by tap-tap switch hand pattern? 🙂

we just want people to ask questions and decide on the tools that are actually right for them instead of what’s just the default

That's the way I also suggest to everyone! When it comes to tinkering with software, GNU/Linux is very good and encourages the user to learn much more efficiently than it's closed software counterparts. Since discovering it I can no longer find any joy in using Windows, really.

Do you by any chance use Vi(m) or Emacs? I can already tell that Colemak (and Dvorak surely too) is superior to QWERTY, but my setup relies heavily on keyboard and I wonder what would be the best approach to setting up keybindings. That's the only reason why I didn't fully switch, yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No i actually just started dual booting linux last week (Garuda). Personally I just adapted my key patterns so yeah copy and paste aren’t next to each other but I know them.

Tap tap switch hand refers to the general dvorak rhythm. In general it tried to get closer to two taps with a hand at a time. This results in a lot of common letter pairings being on the same hand

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, okay. May I ask why did you chose Garuda specifically? 🙂 I think it's the first time I read about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It’s beginner friendly and I know the experts like arch so it seemed a good way to get into that. But also I tried ubuntu years and years ago when linux gaming meant downloading steam felt sketchy so a gaming focused distributor appealed to me