Pros:
- The clickety clack is creamy as hell
- The dial/knob is very useful already
- I really like the LED effects when I’m typing.
- The packaging was superb and it just generally looks amazing
Cons:
- Shipping (unrelated to keyboard):
- it took 3 weeks to get here
- Keys / Spacebar
- It’s quite a high profile position and I find myself double-hitting the spacebar often which appears to have a hare-trigger
- The spacebar is needlessly long, and my thumb can’t quite reach the Alt or Win key without contorting my hand.
- On my laptop, the spacebar begins at
Cand ends atM. Here it starts atXand ends at,
- Customization
- Modifying it in Linux is proving to be painful.
- The qmk cli requires a full reflash, but no easy way to set macros
- VIA has easy macros, but has no cli just a shitty Electron app that requires you to set your keyboard permissions to World Accessible for chrome to detect it (which is creepy).
- Modifying it in Linux is proving to be painful.
- Gaming
- I knew that some keyboards are better for typing and others for gaming, but I did not think the difference would be so big.
- The arrow keys could be a lot more responsive
- I’ve never noticed this issue with a normal keyboard.
I guess I love the look and feel of it, but it’s incredibly frustrating to modify as a linux user and I’m making tons of mistakes with it whilst typing.
Is this all normal? Do I eventually get used to it? Or should I send it back and just use a normal $20 keyboard that I can just type and forget about.
May I ruin something for you just like something is ruined for me? 😁 Read at your own risk below:
Getting older now, after my favourite custom keyboard died at my new work due to faulty third party docking stations they were using in the office, I bought a speed silver switchesd on a TKL keyboard, and at some point another stupid Logitech MX keys when my other DAS keyboard died… Only to finally conclude that my hands hurt after long working hours (and I had an rsi a few years ago) and then I discovered ZSA Voyager… Haven’t ordered that yet, just thinking between that and the UHK60… Not haopy to not delve intk ergo keyboards before… Unsure what to get, slightly leaning towards ZSA, although not having to move hands for a mouse with UHK60 might be just the sweet spot!
As a programmer/console Linux chad, I’ve had my Voyager since last April. First off, the Customer Support is top notch! I messed up my address when placing the order and one of their reps helped me out, monitored my order, checked with me after UPS said it was delivered, etc. Incredibly personal touch, can’t recommend them enough.
Second, it’s really hard to get used to. I’d been using smaller QMK keyboards for about 2 years, but I think the columnar keys were what really made it difficult to adapt to. For the first month or so I had 2 keyboards on my desk for when I needed my typing speed back.
10 months on though, I can’t imaging typing on anything else. I use it for gaming as well with a separate layer. Home row mods are also fantastic once you get used to it. Your pinky fingers will love you.
I bought a ZSA Moonlander 2 years ago. Best decision ever. After 2 weeks no more pain in my wrists and hands. My poor Das Keyboard now suffers the fate of “stand-by keyboard”…