It was a pretty intense commitment moving to this keyboard, it's split, ortholinear, and extremely expensive, but I think it's been one of the best upgrades to my day to day computer usage. It's completely eliminated the pinky pain I was getting from normal keyboards where you're forced to use your pinky for control, super, shift, and escape. As someone who uses vim on sway that was a huge issue for me.

Learning to use it took a few weeks, I primarily used keybr.com to force myself to learn each key slowly and purposefully. I spent 30 minutes every day in the morning before starting work, the first week was brutal and slow, but worth it.

To my great surprise I can easily switch back and forth between normal, non-ortholinear, keyboards and the moonlander. So using my laptop is completely fine.

keycaps

In total:

• 64 1u keys
• 6 1.5u keys
• 2 2u keys

The zsa moonlander comes with row 3 OEM caps with double-shot PBT unless you get blanks in which case you get a full sculpted OEM set. Honestly, I'm not the biggest fan of these keycaps, I don't like the texture very much and the OEM profile feels somewhat sharp on the corners.

I've replaced them with a set of white PBS profile keycaps: https://cannonkeys.com/collections/pbs-keycaps

The new ones are a bit smaller and vastly more comfortable. While I was at it I also upgraded the switches.

switches

I foolishly ordered the keyboard with cherry mx browns. Back in the day cherry switches used to be the best you could get; they're still just as good / bad as they used to be, but now there so many better and cheaper options. I ordered a batch of switches from: https://milktooth.com/products/switches

I went with the Outemu Pear Light Tactile switches which actuate at 35g and feel almost linear. These days I feel pretty confident that I wont be using anything heavier than this ever again. They come "factory lubed" which basically means they feel amazing right out of the box.