For medium to advanced users, I believe the best experience is derived from installing a distro that gives you just a tty and building up from there. Debian's packages are too old. Arch's too new lol, I don't wanna have to think about my updates at all. Void is the perfect middle ground between those, installs similar to Debian, and even boots faster than both :)
(Gentoo is a no no)
MessagEase designed it's layout with one thumb in mind, go for the og
I love this. Almost as much as using runit as my init system
Same, I enjoyed being able to pick and choose what character appeared where on messagease, if at all. Also holding a letter to get the number "below it" was pretty neat
Pronouns lol
I feel like most EDC stuff is underwhelming, but I still enjoy it tho
On that Equalizer grind
W movie, W post
What a thing the internet is
It's funny to me how everybody on the 40% ergo (maybe split) train wants/likes exactly the corne, but with more pinky stagger
I'd love to help you iterate a layout based on your B point. I made one based on those ideas with Keyboard Designer and definitely noticed improvements over the original MessageEase layout, but I'd like to get your input too.
That's the layout I made. I took Dvorak as a starting point, then applied your ideas where I saw fit, and later swaped a few keys around.
Holding # opens the keyboard settings btw. I find it a lot better to have larger backspace, symbols and enter keys than having a dedicated settings key (that I accidently press way too often in Thumb-Key)
Bear in mind Keyboard Designer doesn't allow actions on diagonal slides, so that's why you might notice them missing
Slow af but comfy