I’m a complete novice to mech and ergo so I apologize in advance for any sins lol

The 3 I checked are Kinesis 360 (https://kinesis-ergo.com/keyboards/advantage360/), Glove80 (https://www.moergo.com/collections/glove80-keyboards) and the Moonlander (https://www.zsa.io/moonlander/).

These below are what I got from watching reviews:

  • Kinesis is difficult to customize and sometimes has connectivity issues
  • Glove80 feels cheap
  • Moonlander doesn’t have many keys and thumb cluster is on odd position

Considering the prices, the moonlander is about US$100 cheaper than the others, so feels like a better option.

I am interested in options with keywell, as they feel way more comfortable, but anything will be better since I use an conventional non-split keyboard.

The right menu links to a compare tool but there are so many.

My hands are small, so it may constrain the options I have. Or maybe not.

What are your opinions/suggestions/experience with these types of keyboards?

  • mmasnick
    4·
    2 years ago

    I know of almost no ergo boards that have dedicated function keys. Moonlander does have number keys though… and you can use layers to turn those into function keys…

    • lfzs@lemmy.caOP
      2·
      2 years ago

      I saw some mentions of layers but in all fairness, it’s not appealing to me if I want to hit F6 to make the cursor go to the browser’s address bar.

      But thanks for mentioning! It may help others.

      • mmasnick
        4·
        2 years ago

        Yeah, I get it. I say the same thing about boards with no number keys and people tell me I can just use layers. But for whatever reason, layers for function keys makes more sense to me. It’s just like pressing “shift” except instead of “shift” you press a different button and the number/function key.

      • donnachaidh@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 years ago

        Just as an aside, I didn’t know F6 did that. I use Ctrl+L, which does that same thing but also drops down the suggestions.