So, as you probably, don’t recall, my daily driver keyboard for the last month has been the OLKB + Drop Preonic.
This is an ortholinear layout keyboard. The keys are in a 5 x 12 grid, and the rows are not offset the way they are in most keyboard.
Typing on it was straight-up weird for about two weeks.
The more difficult adjustment has been learning to use the raise & lower bucky-bits keys to access punctuation that are normally on keys not present on this keyboard. Things people don’t type often. You know, unimportant punctuation like -_=+[{}]\|
What has kept me going through this adaptation phase is the switches I put in this. The switches are amazing. I love them. I love the way they feel under my fingers. I love the way they sound in this keyboard.
The physical experience of pressing a key is pleasing.
The switches are Everglide Aqua Kings. This is a linear switch with factory lube. I’m a convert. Team Linear here we go! (A duckduckgo search will turn up a vendor near you. They’re available.)
(Insert meme gif of every programmer reading this reacting.)
Anyway, I can finally now type all those characters without looking them up, and I’m almost fast at typing the brackets.