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The only mechanical keyboard I used before this one was a HyperX FPS Alloy with Cherry MX Red switches.
So I recently bought a Moonlander Mark 1 with Silent Cherry MX Red switches.
I had been suffering from increasingly bad RSI over the past few months and decided to look into modern mechanical ergonomic keyboards. The interesting ones I came across that didn't require me to solder anything (I have never soldered anything in my entire life...) were the ZSA Ergodox EZ and the Moonlander Mark 1. First impressions was that it made my RSI symptoms feel worse until I started to really mess with the layout until it started to match with what I can comfortably use for reasonable amounts of time.
Since it arrived I have been typing mainly on it. It took me a few weeks before I got to a reasonable typing speed on it. But once I did, and by extension to dealing with an ortholinear split layout, typing on a normal keyboard is starting to feel rather weird.
Great thing about the Moonlander is it's programmability. The fact that it allows you to do nearly everything under the sun you could possibly want in a keyboard is fucking amazing.
The only mechanical keyboard I had use before was the HyperX FPS Pro with Cherry MX Red switches. At the time it was the cheapest MX Red keyboard I could find at 80 euros. And by "at the time" I mean while scrolling through review sites at two in the morning on my phone, while laying in bed. I remember that I did still decide to get out of bed to actually buy the thing.
Overall a great keyboard with somewhat flimsy keycaps that easily fly off. I tried to write this post with the HyperX again... It went surprisingly bad. While my overall typing speed and accuracy on a staggered layout are still al lot better, my arms also hurt a lot quicker. On the long run, the Moonlander also seems to help with back problems I didn't even realise I had. I just noticed my back _not_ hurting during lunch break.
If there is one thing I want to bring across with this short, tipsy ramble it's that the ZSA Moonlander is great, takes a quite some time to get used to and is really quite expensive.