When you moved to a reduced ergomech, how long did it take for you to adapt to layers?
When you moved to a reduced ergomech, how long did it take for you to adapt to layers?
Hey folks, me again.
Those of you who went from a larger keyboard to a smaller one that required the use of layers: was the transition hard? Could you still type on the old keyboard after?
Context: I was asking the other day about which ortholinear to get for commuting. Although the glove80 is the closest to my current home desktop keyboard, I've ruled it out as I don't think it will fit in my backpack. If it does, it will take up too much space.
So I'm looking at something like the voyager, but with such a small keyboard, there will be a learning curve. I'm used to ortholinear, but I've never used layers. And if I manage to adapt, it'd be nice to still be able to use my desktop keywell keyboard at home.
Thoughts?
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I borrowed a preonic which got me interested with the orthographic layout. The custom keyboard rabbit hole drew me in, and a friend was planning on doing a ferris sweep build, so I started reducing my keymap to try it out.
Being able to do it in stages helped with trying out and committing to a 34 key layout. Looking back it wasn't that bad and my advice to someone who doesn't have an intermediate step to borrow or budget for additional keyboards is to just jump in.