What’s your flavour of keyboard?
Mechanical? Which type of switch? Which layout? TenKeyLess? 
(Photos welcome!)
Keyboardio atreus with tactile switches (currently, WS light tactile).
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I use any kinkd of Thinkpad keyboard.
I use the Trackpoint to avoid travelling to reach the mouse.
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Using a Kinesis advantage 2 LF, normal kinesis swedish-qwerty layout for work. It has Cherry MX Quiet Red. I am contemplating on whether I should move to Colemak-DH Miryoku layout using KMonad.
I soldered a Kyria rev3 with Miryoku Colemak-DH layout that I want to start using, when I have time to use computers out of work. It has Choc hot swap with Kailh Low Profile Choc Switches.
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Been a happy Filco user for ages, currently it’s the Majestouch Convertible 3 Tenkeyless NINJA US (MX Brown).
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Dactyl Manuform 4x5 with CHERRY MX GREEN switches.
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i’ve been using an ergodox for about 7 years. currently with boba u4t switches. before that i used a kinesis advantage 2 and i’m building a dactyl manuform, just need to print the case and finish soldering.
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That has to be one of the coolest looking keyboards I’ve seen!
What is it like to use? Is it fatiguing at all? (My issue with mechanical keyboards, hence why I prefer the flatter Apple keyboards)
I have been using ZSA Moonlander for 4 years. Currently with Cherry MX Silent Red keyswitches. It’s a mechanical keyboard, and it’s programmable (you can assign any keycode to any physical key).
Funny story about Boba U4T switches (mentioned by @cevado above): I have heard that Boba U4 switches are very quiet, so I ordered a pack. Except that I accidentally ordered Boba U4T, which is not silent at all… That “T” matters quite a lot.
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It depends on the type of switch. I’ve personally settled on light linear switches, which are not all that different in feel from what you find on older laptops.
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Do you have the same keyboard @ieQu1? If so do you need wrist rests with it?
I like the look of it as it seems quite ergonomic, just trying to figure out whether it encourages a natural positioning of hands/fingers which I think would lead to less fatigue/RSI type issues commonly associated with mechanical keyboards.
Edit: just found this video and in the first couple of minutes he talks about thumb pain:
Edit 2: looks like you need wrist rests and that is a deal breaker for me as I frequently need to push my keyboard back to make notes (and generally not keen on having to use them)
They look cool though! Am jealous of everyone else’s keyboards.
Whatever is built into the laptop I’m using or came with the desktop I’m using, or if I’m using a desktop that didn’t come with one, an el cheapo USB keyboard. The keyboard I want to use is the Sun model 3 but that’s not an option. The size and spacing of the keys matters most to me.
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The keyboard I want to use is the Sun model 3 but that’s not an option.
Oh nostalgic, the old Sun keyboard that was the best, never touched anything like it again,
now using Logitech G613 actually pretty nice as well.
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I use Moonlander, as the user above, without any palm rests.
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Kinesis Advantage2, qwerty keycaps but this custom dvorak layout - https://www.flipturn.org/
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Keychron Q5 QMK
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I usually recommend this video everytime someone talks about wrist rests
it’s better to use the arm rest of your chair and the place that you put your keyboard to be lower than your hands.
about thumb pain, any keyboard with thumb clusters require some adaptation and it really depends on the shape of your hand, the “good part” of assembling your own keyboard would be that changes in shape is just a matter of printing a new case. For me what works better is something like the picture @sg2342 sent, i let my thumb resting between the 2 bigger keys this way is easy to reach them. those with a lined up set of keys seems very uncomfortable.
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Very interesting, thanks @cevado!
I think almost all of the issues she mentions are eradicated by using an ultra low-profile keyboard like the Apple Magic Keyboard, it’s certainly the most comfortable keyboard I have used myself (though I just wish it was little lighter on the touch and a little more spaced out; a lot like the full size version Apple do).
