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For me, it has very practical reasons.

If you work in software, you'll spend 6-10+ hours a day interfacing with the machine via your hands.

So of course, the quality of that experience matters. Each person's fingers and typing styles are different to degrees so finding the right fit requires sampling. You often require a few days or even weeks to adjust and get a feel if a keyboard is right for you. I've had keyboards that only surfaced fatigue after a month of use.

I've accumulated keyboards mostly in search of the perfect one that can prevent fatigue, pain, and injury for a job that requires 1/3 of my day to be attached to a keyboard.



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