Ask HN: How is your experience with a mechanical keyboard?

I'll admit I'm a bit anxious about choosing the switches. Every time I read about mechanical keyboards it seems to be "a big deal™". I'll be choosing between Kailh Silent BOX Brown (tactile), BOX red (linear), BOX white (clicky) switches, plus a fourth yet to be decided.

Noise is a bit issue - quieter the better - so the whites are off the menu. Have to dig into the pros and cons at some point.

I bottom out hard, and feel knuckle-, eventually wrist-pain, when typing intently for more than half an hour on Apple external keyboards. In the long run, it keeps typing more comfortable, so it's a kind of survival advantage.

To reduce noise, it's my current practice to put a thin hand towel under the keyboard, both at home and at co-working spaces. It eliminates some of the deeper more noticeable noises. This helps lessen annoyance, or at least comments, from friends, roommates, and partners, and so is again, a survival (of on-going use of my current setup) advantage.