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I can recommend a small split ortholinear keyboard. I built one as a weekend project and it was pretty fun, doable with basic microcontroller and solder skills (except for the ~50 SMD LEDs which I couldn’t be bothered to do). Pretty happy with it, it’s comfortable and I do feel that I type better than on a regular keyboard. You can buy kits containing everything you need, I got this one:

https://mechboards.co.uk/shop/kits/helidox-corne-kit/#case

With small keyboards, you’re trading off physical distance between keys for having to press more buttons simultaneously. Might fix your problems with reaching key combinations, but the combinations themselves do become more complicated as well.

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I've wanted to pursue them but my hope was to find software to do stateful/modal transitions. As a fake example, instead of pressing Alt+Z you'd press Alt then Z. It becomes a lot like modal editors, which is my favorite style of editing - i add a lot of usermode stuff into Kakoune to avoid key combinations.

So far i've not felt i could get software to do the modal editing i speak of reliably in all of my environments. I'm on NixOS right now, and i didn't want to manage the software. It definitely is interesting though!

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I think Windows allows you to do this at the OS level, however now you’re stuck using Windows ;)