[NickBusey]

My previously favorite keyboard, Das Keyboard, has a rotary encoder for the volume control, and it's fantastic. I agree that sliders and encoders could/should be used more. There are plenty of great MIDI devices out there that offer them, I should play around with some of them for day to day stuff like this rather than just music.

[swah]

Same. The devices to test this are very cheap over at Aliexpress, or maybe Keebmonkey offerings if you want something a little better https://www.keebmonkey.com/products/megalodon-triple-knob-ma...

I wonder if I would get used to using a single key for each app versus Alt-tabbing. I believe this is the main cause of my left wrist pain.

[ilyt]

> I wonder if I would get used to using a single key for each app versus Alt-tabbing. I believe this is the main cause of my left wrist pain.

I use that kind of setup (kinda) in i3, it is great. It's not one app per key, but one keybind per virtual desktop but I have i3 set up that apps autostart and gets placed always on same desktop

So going to IDE is always caps+4 (I rebounded caps to act as modifier), mail client is caps+F2 etc.

Then few keybinds to move stuff around for those 2% of cases where I need apps on different desktops than usual.

[lesona]

Previously favorite? I'm looking for something to replace my current KB, and I was wondering what your current favorite is/why you like it better than Das keyboard.

[NickBusey]

Current favorite is the UHK, linked in the article. Main reason is the split, secondary reason is the firmware for things like the mouse keys and custom layers.

[mariusor]

I would think the main reason for preferring the UHK is the capability to add the trackpoint module to it, even though you gloss over it in the text. :D.

Btw have you tried the trackball? When they introduced the modules I was vacillating between that and the trackpoint, but ended up with the trackball (of which I'm very happy), but I would be curious of alternative points of view.