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I absolutely love my kinesis advantage 360. So much so, that I wanna find a similar portable keyboard that I can bring with me in a backpack. I’m looking for split keyboards that has a similar key layout and similar size thumb cluster.

The Halcyon Elora looks promising. Any other recommendations? This will be mostly for coding if you need an idea of what keys are import to me. And I use vim (bwt) if that context helps too lol.

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[–] dracc@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Dactyl, Dactyl-cc, Dactyl Manuform would be my suggestions.

What's stopping you from bringing your Kinesis Advantage360?

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I love the kinesis because it’s heavy and feels sturdy. I think I would hate traveling with it for the same reason.

After more reading, I was leaning towards the Go60. But these Dactyl keyboard look sick. The thumb clusters look better on the dactyl but I do like the portability of the go60.