I bought a new keyboard a while ago. A few things worth noting are:
- it is split keyboard. in the past some split keyboards have, well, sucked. The most common problems have been the mangled 'delete/insert/home/end/pg up/down' cluster and putting the ctrl keys in hard to reach places.
- it is a Microsoft keyboard. yes, that's right. I bought something from Microsoft. Now will you believe me that I don't hate microsoft, I don't think it is an "evil" company, and I don't think linux is perfect. I mean it when I say I think MS Windows has a crappy user interface and as someone once pointed out I mean it has a crappy user interface for me.
Anyway I bought a "Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000". I don't know what the 4000 means. Also none of the fancy keys work under linux so I don't know how useful they are. (There is a kernel patch I haven't bothered with.)
I've been using it for a couple weeks and it is on my recommended hardware list.
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I had a microsoft split keyboard for awhile. I liked it, even with the wierd home/end cluster. I quite liked it. Until I broke it.
Also, the fancy keys mostly worked in ubuntu. I don't even remember making them work.
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