[ashtonkem]

Disagree whole heartedly. The benefits of ortho is minor compared to the split, but it’s still there. And if you’re already willing to buy an expensive split mechanical keyboard, what’s the drawback?

[stavros]

The drawback is that you'll spend months learning to type again, and you won't be nearly as fast as you were.

That's what happened for me, at least.

[whoisburbansky]

Counter anecdote; I switched to split ortho a couple weeks ago and it didn't take much more than a week of consistently using only the new keyboard to get back up to normal speeds. The ortho seems to have made it much easier for me to touch type, as a result of which I now make fewer errors and generally barely ever consciously think about the actual action of typing.

[Ataraxy]

Took me like 3 or 4 days to get up to my normal speed of a bit over 100wpm.

This was also going from 60% to my first split/ortho.

Took me another couple of days to get used to chording and these days I use a 36 key split board.

So your mileage may vary, but it's definitely not going to take you months typically.

[AzzieElbab]

Ease of adaption may depend on users age. No point to argue about this imho

[ashtonkem]

Also, people can have different preferences and that’s ok.