eclipse key map on intellij

Question

I am switching to Intellij from eclipse because many people have recommended it.

I am thinking of using eclipse key map for it , but I am wondering if I should just spend some time learning the actual keymaps. Is there any advantage to way Intellij keymaps are ?

Answer 1

Beside the advantage mentioned by chalimartines in the comments (more accurate help), the main advantage is to minimize potential conflicts with existing plugins keymaps, which could collide with your new keymap.
Anton Arhipov adds in the comments that:

any other keymap might not cover all the cases for IntelliJ.
Thus, by switching the keymap, the user has a risk of limiting himself from the full potential while using IntelliJ.

The other approach, when considering the IntelliJIDEA_ReferenceCard.pdf (full default keymap), is to make a simplified one, as done in "Improved IntelliJ keymap" by Jamie Craane: see this Reference Card.