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¹ split meaning a separation of the halves, whether fixed in place or entirely separate, both are fine.
² ortholinear meaning keys layed out in a grid

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Top is Das Pro 4, bottom is ErgoDox EZ

Love the customization and quickly learning to love the split keyboard. The non-staggered keys are going to take me a long time to get used to. I'm struggling with the bottom row and outer-edge keys the most.

Still happy with it but it's going to be a while before I can use it at work or for anything useful.

Edit*** Already doing a lot better! To be fair, this was an easier sentence...

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[–] naught@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Took me about a few weeks to get really used to the columnar layout on my moonlander. However, I sat down one night early on and banged out my config and practiced with ZSA's learning tools and found it immensely helpful. Got me like 90% of the way there pretty quick. I try to retain the typing the same form on staggered layouts now, but it's still a context switch. Good luck!