[claforte]

Price, availability. For instance, steno software costed thousands of dollars. But this is about to change:

- Plover is a free, cross-platform steno software: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZGuBV1xe64

- This Canadian guy develops cool, quality steno and ergonomic boards. The Georgi is $95USD - significantly less expensive than alternatives. There aren't any official reviews yet, but Plover users on Discord seem to really like it.

https://www.gboards.ca/product/georgi (web site appears temporarily down though - was up yesterday.)

I'm planning to buy one this week - trying to get my boss to cover it since it will help with my mild RSI.

[SuperPaintMan]

Don't forget the QWERTY mode! Steno requires a huge time commitment to learn, chorded QWERTY much less so.

And if you don't like it, it's a QMK based board so it can be reprogrammed!

http://docs.gboards.ca/Unboxing-Georgi

[opencl]

There's also the more traditional Ergodox-like Gergo that is mostly a normal QWERTY board with some ergonomic improvements.

https://www.gboards.ca/category/gergo

[radeklew]

OLKB Planck keyboards [0] (presumably Preonics as well) also come with a Plover layout included in the default firmware.

[0] https://olkb.com/planck