What does HackerNews think of dactyl-manuform?

I wrote about this in one of my articles. I use a Kinesis Advantage 360. It's like the Kinesis Advantage but split. I like it, but there are draw backs. Namely, the clusters are not mirrored across both keyboards.

Left Side Backspace Delete Ctrl Alt Home End

Right Super Key Ctrl Page Up Page Down Enter Space

The keys are easy to hit, but the biggest problem is the space bar. On a typical keyboard the space bar is accessible from either thumb. This makes it so that if you are using the mouse and are playing an FPS, then you can still jump. This is not possible on the Kinesis Advantage withought modifying the keys. I use the Smartset program, and have a profile specifically for games that fixes this, but it might be annoying to some

The second is that fact that there is not print screen key on the advantage. I take a lot of screenshots for work so this is annoying. I've set one of the 4 macro keys to be the key combination I need to make screenshots, but again this required some configuration.

With that being said I still like the keyboard. My hands feel great even after 12 hours of mixed browsing, coding, and writing. My posture is better, and I don't get pain in my vertebrae next to my shoulder blade. But there are definitely things I would change if I was making it from scratch. Maybe in the future I'll Diy a dactyl-manuform^1 which has the perfect switches and layout for me.

https://github.com/abstracthat/dactyl-manuform

Unless you use a keyboard like a Dactyl Manuform that provides your thumbs with better access to such modifier keys https://github.com/abstracthat/dactyl-manuform

I feel like you're out of the loop when it comes to keyboard nerds. Check out the dactyl-manuform [0]. The days of tiny 40/60 keyboards are gone, they aren't cool anymore (joking of course, use what you want).

[0] https://github.com/abstracthat/dactyl-manuform

you could also build your own at much lower cost but much higher labor: https://github.com/abstracthat/dactyl-manuform https://www.etsy.com/market/dactyl_manuform