Canary VS miryoku_qmk

https://github.com/Apsu/Canary I don't understand the sections on row stagger and angle mod. Please could someone explain in simple terms where to rest my fingers and which finger to use for each key. Thank you so much.

Keyboard layouts that are worth checking out are Canary, Graphite and Semimak. From what I understand they have all been made in the last two years. I'm biased in favor of Canary as it's very similar to Colemak which made the switch easy for me and I find it really comfortable, but the only thing that really matters is your personal experience when actually typing on the layout, not all the statistics that some people obsess over endlessly.

At https://github.com/Apsu/Canary, it's stated that Canary has 55% of all trigrams as rolls.

Try Canary layout https://github.com/Apsu/Canary It is very similar to Colemak DH and having E and U at different fingers. But, E and O is now at the same finger, isn’t that an issue for French typing?

Romak also has some very nice attributes, as do poqtea and uciea. I also find Canary to have a lot of merit.

My current layout, Canary, wouldn't be a great fit for this board, as with the reduction of six keys from a 34-key layout, six letters would be need to be under either a combo or layer, which I'm not too comfortable with.

I use hrm with canary layout, which puts the most used keys on the home row, so that means that I tap on the hrm keys the most. And I have pretty much 0 mistakes.

The homepages for Semimak JQ and Sturdy include thoughts by their respective creators on the layouts' strengths and weaknesses, though surely with a little bias =) The Canary homepage has detailed description of its Colemak-inspired design.

I use Canary ortho https://github.com/Apsu/Canary

Quick note about ortho vs column stagger vs row stagger when it comes to layouts: they generally don't make a difference, though sometimes you still want to make a change. This is most often with regards to upper + lower inner index vs howerow inner index, like on Canary (note the difference between the indexes of the ortho and the regular variant).

From what I understand this is enabled by default in Miryoku? Looking at this file: https://github.com/manna-harbour/miryoku_qmk/blob/miryoku/users/manna-harbour_miryoku/config.h

The qmk firmware is definitely what you want

Piantor is supported by Miryoku QMK in QMK master, so you can build it directly from there. However community layout support is missing in the older version of piantor in the miryoku branch, and the workflow merge feature is currently broken, so I can't run a workflow build at the moment, but here's one from earlier: https://github.com/manna-harbour/miryoku_qmk/actions/runs/3943408991

Here's a build run for crkbd on pro-micro with default options: https://github.com/manna-harbour/miryoku_qmk/actions/runs/4591161307. The artifact is here: https://github.com/manna-harbour/miryoku_qmk/suites/11977156021/artifacts/628488034.

Crowboard is supported in Miryoku KMK. Support will be added to Miryoku QMK on request. Via / Vial is not supported by Miryoku QMK but you should be able to enable it manually. Colemak Mod-DH is the default alpha arrangement for all Miryoku implementations.

You would need to read the part about substitution of layer here. You would need to copy your base layer from the miryoku_layers_alternatives.h and just change the button codes in the homerow and on the thumb keys. Should be pretty easily done.

Here's a default build for Corne. Flash that to both sides with QMK Toolbox. It'll start on Base which is Colemak Mod-DH by default. Hold the right hand home thumb and double tap the right hand top row middle finger key. That will switch to Extra, which is QWERTY by default. The double tap needs to be quite fast (within 200ms by default). You can use any thumb on either hand, so long as the double tap is on the same hand as the thumb hold.

My layout is essentially a slightly modified version of the already established Miryoku layout. My thumb key dual functions are unchanged from his layout. Since it is QMK/ZMK, anything configuration is possible so if you want to change which key activated which kayer, it can be changed. For me, I like the default becuase space/nav and backspace/num is really natural for me. One of my next build is gonna be a Ferris so I'm gonna move some things around but as long as my space and backspace keys are where my thumbs naturally rest, it should hw fine.