Hey Folks,
Just got a Ergodox-EZ with the custom sculpted keycaps and MX Silent Reds and I'm in a little predicament.
First issue: I have the tent kit, but I can already tell coming from the Kinesis, it can't tent it enough. I can add some books, but I'm feeling like the tent on this board will need to be over 45 degrees and I don't have anything to do that with. You can feel the strain in the inner wrist to hit the modifiers on the thumb cluster. The strain is almost imperceptible on the Kinesis. I can also feel strain across the tops of my hands for some reason, it might be that I'm used to the concave nature of the Kinesis, but my Iris doesn't have the same strain at all either.
Second issue: The Silent Reds, I like the sound and the linear-ness, but it seems like the switch is heavier than my browns on my Kinesis? I even have an Iris with Zilent 62g's and these feel scratchy and STIFF especially on the thumb cluster, which I can feel my thumbs at the end of a day with the Dox. These are my first linear switch, so I could just have to get used to them, but I think it might have to deal with the hot-swap on these new boards?
I deal with and have dealt with RSI from poor posture in the past and ****ty setups at the house, mainly forearm pain due to posture, resting incorrectly, even while using a Kinesis Advantage. I am lucky these really haven't had to deal with wrist pain, just forearm/neck/shoulder. Since COVID-19, I've devoted a lot of time to try to knock it out trying out some new boards and setups here (keyboard tray with negative tilt, decent chair, good monitor height, stop using emacs
)) and I feel like I've cracked a lot of codes, but I'd like to know others experiences in the Ergodox compartment. I've found out I love negative tilt, it feels great. I'm 6'4 (193cm) so I feel like a split board would allow my shoulders to distance themselves more, my arms angle in on the Kinesis, but my wrists are straight. I'm not positive if this is good or not. It might sound weird, but one of the most comfortable keyboards I've ever owned was a TypeMatrix 2030 and this was pre-RSI -- it was also in my 20's