I'm thinking of switching to an #ergonomic split #keyboard from a normal one. I'm interested in the ZSA Moonlander and especially the Dygma Defy: dygma.com/pages/defy

I like the idea of tenting and a columnar layout, but I'm a bit scared to relearn everything 🤔 what do you use and what was your keyboard journey?

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I was randomly browsing the , when I found your @ChristianKrebel ! :ablobcatcoffee:
Wrote a post about it just yesterday :blobaviator:
qoto.org/@frayoshi/11205127974

TL;DR
Arrived from
qwerty full size
to
Moonlander + Dvorak
and shockingly eliminated my wrist pain :blobaww:

What about you?
what choice have you made? :ablobderpy:

@frayoshi nice to read your story! You give me hope to do the jump as well, right now I still use a normal QWERTZ layout but I really want to try Colemak 😁 I do not have wrist pain yet but back pain and I take every improvement in my posture 😅
Last year I ordered a Dygma Defy because I like the product and a colleague got one as well, but it'll arrive in April 🫠
110 WPM is fast, faster than I type now, I'm fine with 50 - 70 WPM when I relearn to type 😂

beware @ChristianKrebel ..... that then you'll likely struggle to use again a qwertz XD

Well, I went dvorak, very far from qwerty/z.... might be less pronounced the effect on a Colemak layout ^^
Still, expect to drop typing speeds, unless you constant swap one with the other :ablobderpy:

I kinda hope I went with a Voyager, feel the constant urge to bring the moonlander with me e.where XD the voyager is much more portable :)

@frayoshi haha yeah I think I have to switch constantly 😅😂 also I bought a QWERTY layout because I thought when I switch then I'll do it completely 🫠

I also thought of buying the voyager or even a MoErgo Glove80 as they seem pretty lightweight, but I wasn't sure about them when it comes to i.e. tenting.

@ChristianKrebel for , you can always build on them [as this person](reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%) have!

The 'problem' of the , and also of the , is that they take a good amount of space on the .. now, if that is a problem, only depends on you... but if is on top of the list, the can only be beaten by custom ones... ^^

The problem for me, is the only 2 thumb keys, I think 3 would have been perfect! :blobaviator: do you hear me? XD

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