What I wish I'd known before getting into split keyboards: definitely results in better keyboard ergonomics, but worse pointing device ergonomics.

If your keyboard halves are perfectly aligned with your arms, your pointing device won't be. If you move it in the middle of the halves or to the side, it hurts.

Gotta move one half in a bit to make room for it, which makes you want to ease the other half in too. So both halves end up very close to each other… like in a normal keyboard.

@jonikorpi i like having a trackball in my right split, but I haven't yet found the perfect keyboard for me

there are no orthogonal 2x4x6 keyboards with a trackball, and most built-in trackballs are not very good

that said, Keyball gets pretty close to optimal, i even played action RPGs on an aliexpress clone after swapping the bearings for zirconia