This is a really nice layout. I have mine set up very similar at the moment and its working great for me. I kept the nearest thumb cluster key for the enter and space bar and am set a row lower than your config... I'm tempted to give this a go for all the reasons you have mentioned. Good stuff man!
If you're struggling adapting to mechanical switches, one thing that you could look into would be the low profile choc switches. They'd still mechanical of course but they'd be much closer to your apple keyboard in terms of how they feel. Not saying it's absolutely the solution here because everyone has different preferences of course, but it might be something worth having a look at :)
I’m on the Ferris Sweep camp for over a year now. Light switches made all the difference for me. I like it so much I actually built 3 of them, so I can keep one home, other at the office and yet another in my bag for use whenever I am. I know you just said you don’t like switching layers for enter, but I guess that’s more to do with the weight of the switch. So try a light one. As per layout, I found out the Callum layout was the answer since I have not got used to hold-taps, with a lot of misfires.
You might really like the Glove80 too. It's also columnar, but has a keywell as well, which is a huge advantage over either the Ferris Sweep or the Moonlander (got one of those too). It's bluetooth, low energy, and has 80 keys, so you don't need to go through all of the mental torture to learn a 34 key layout (ASK ME HOW I KNOW). Typed on my Glove80, so take everything I say with a grain of salt. Also, if light keypresses is your thing, I just got the Choc purpz which have a 35g actuation force. After a slight learning curve coming from full travel mech keys, they feel really REALLY nice.
Feels more like you need lighter and faster keys, like quick silvers... I think you're going down a rabbit hole with too many keywords. The moonlander has hotswappable switches.
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This is a really nice layout. I have mine set up very similar at the moment and its working great for me. I kept the nearest thumb cluster key for the enter and space bar and am set a row lower than your config... I'm tempted to give this a go for all the reasons you have mentioned. Good stuff man!
If you're struggling adapting to mechanical switches, one thing that you could look into would be the low profile choc switches. They'd still mechanical of course but they'd be much closer to your apple keyboard in terms of how they feel. Not saying it's absolutely the solution here because everyone has different preferences of course, but it might be something worth having a look at :)
I should have watched the whole video before replying, you literally mention this exact thing at the end. Oops.
I’m on the Ferris Sweep camp for over a year now. Light switches made all the difference for me. I like it so much I actually built 3 of them, so I can keep one home, other at the office and yet another in my bag for use whenever I am.
I know you just said you don’t like switching layers for enter, but I guess that’s more to do with the weight of the switch. So try a light one.
As per layout, I found out the Callum layout was the answer since I have not got used to hold-taps, with a lot of misfires.
Thanks for sharing! I just recently bought a Ferris sweep, will definitely give Callum a try
Just a plug for keebmaker that you showed at the end, I have a ferris sweep made by them and it is great!!!
would you mind sharing your personal oryx layout please
Do you stay qwerty even with the layout?
You might really like the Glove80 too. It's also columnar, but has a keywell as well, which is a huge advantage over either the Ferris Sweep or the Moonlander (got one of those too). It's bluetooth, low energy, and has 80 keys, so you don't need to go through all of the mental torture to learn a 34 key layout (ASK ME HOW I KNOW). Typed on my Glove80, so take everything I say with a grain of salt.
Also, if light keypresses is your thing, I just got the Choc purpz which have a 35g actuation force. After a slight learning curve coming from full travel mech keys, they feel really REALLY nice.
how do you know
The Choc Purpz are Linear switches with - 25±5gf not 35g.
please tell me what kind of socket plugs these are and where to buy them?
great video! I'm about to assemble my ferriss, let me know if yeu want to talk about layouts!
Would you please share your moonlander layout?
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Feels more like you need lighter and faster keys, like quick silvers... I think you're going down a rabbit hole with too many keywords. The moonlander has hotswappable switches.