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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
I have a Dygma Defy with Kailh box white switches. It's definitely a different experience. Adjustment time is a legit issue though if you work hybrid. The ortholinear layout is so different, and the split layout is such a no-brainer. Something like this, stripped down to the essentials, is the future of keyboards.
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I guess I'm not surprised to hear that about the Defy, because of the ortholinear (well, I guess columnar, it's still staggered) layout. But the Raise is actually not that big an adjustment. The split and tented keyboard takes a slight bit of getting used to especially if you have bad habits (i.e. pressing a key near the middle of the layout with the wrong finger) but it really didn't take me very long, and the raise's design (whereby you can just use it as a normal staggered horizontal row keyboard and then gradually split it) makes that part easy to adjust to as well - although I never had much of an issue from the start with that.
I decided against the defy for more or less that reason - I'm going to have to type on staggered keyboards a lot, on laptops and otherwise, and I don't want it to feel awkward.