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Kinesis Advantage 2 Keyboard: Not for the Developers
I have been using it for the last two years. I always have a love-to-hate relationship. In the end, I gave up and here are the reasons
I like ergo products because I am spending at least 9 hours on a chair to perform my profession: I am a software engineer and keyboard -especially keyboard- is my daily driver. I have hundreds of keyboard shortcuts to manage my windows, coding environment (yeeeey vim + tmux), etc. If the keyboard is not comfortable then I will have pain and it will be a painful work environment. As I am celebrating my 20th year in professional life, I’ve been using a lot of keyboards you can imagine. It was easy old times — There was a certain shape and they were OK. Older older times, everything was integrated so we didn’t need to use external keyboards for the systems like Commodore 64 and Amiga 500.
Something happened between 2000 and 2005… We’ve begun to have a lot of keyboard options and I am happy about it. I always like the wave design of keyboards because it feels more natural for my wrists and arms.
I had a problem with my wrist (internal ganglion which is not seen) 3 years ago and from that point, I took extra care about my environment. I have stopped using a desktop computer around 10…
