DAY 2Jesus.... my head is freaking out, I took it to work today - while I really love the topre feeling, I'm VERY frustrated doing data work on this.
I did not realise how many key combos I do while working - CTRL, Shift, End, Home, arrows. All those I use a lot during data analysis, editing etc
My excitement about using 60% keyboard dropped drastically from 100% to 10%...
I dont know if this is going to work for me...
Yes 10% - No 90%...I think I hit the wall today...
When typing text is absolutely fine, then when editing, moving cursor from word to word, changing lines, jumping between things is just so annoying, using CTRL or shift with arrows feels so unnatural, uncomfortable, it gives me headache, literally my head hurts after today's work.
I love how topre switches feel like, how they sound, its so smooth and nice clicking noise. Caps are nice. Size of this keyboard is absolutely amazing, it looks so beautiful.
But moving around words or lines - this is killing the whole experience. At this stage I do not think that this will improve, I seriously don't think I can get used to it.
I envy all of you who uses hhkb for coding or text editing, as I cannot image how hard was to get used to those navigation combos. I don't see myself learning it. 30 years of using TKL of full board must have engraved those moves in my hands.
Only solution I see is to return this and get Realforce R2 TKL 55g. Something I had in the past and liked it. This would give me that sound and feel of topre without making any more sacrifices...