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As someone who owns the Moonlander, ZSA's proprietary successor to the Ergodox EZ, I consider the soon-to-be-released Dygma Defy (https://dygma.com/pages/defy h
by jhanschoo 4y ago
As someone who owns the Moonlander, ZSA's proprietary successor to the Ergodox EZ, I consider the soon-to-be-released Dygma Defy (https://dygma.com/pages/defy https://dygma.com/pages/defy) to be superior to either in every respect save perhaps for the maturity of its firmware platform.
- vladvasiliu 4y agoThis looks nice. I don't have a Moonlander, so why do you expect this to be superior, apart from being wireless (which, I think, is awesome, since I hate having random cables running across my desk)? However, what's missing, for me, is the Fx row or direct access media keys. I know about layers, not moving the fingers too far, etc, and think this is a great approach for when I'm in "full-on working mode". But I oftentimes find myself wanting to push one specific "function" key when one of my hands is busy / dirty (think eating an apple or similar). I would rather not have to do weird pinky gymnastics or push multiple keys just to trigger one function. Plus, these things are already massive enough that one more row would probably make little to no difference. Those are also not things I'd need to do all day every day, so sacrificing a few buttons from the thumb clusters doesn't seem right, either.
- jhanschoo 4y agoIn addition to wireless, more customization options and a more sensible thumb cluster position, was why I regarded the Defy as better. I, too, feel that a lack of dedicated keys for less-used keys including function keys is a problem with these keyboards, and also consider the general community's philosophy of reducing finger travel by transforming such keys to chords problematic. But I don't see much change to this anytime soon.