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Re: My favorite keyboards

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Post by mghackerlady »

bayindirh wrote: post #135
mghackerlady wrote: post #92

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Logitech is by far the best "get shit done" PC accessory manufacturer. They work, last forever, and have options for nearly every niche there is

For the longest time, I was preferring Microsoft keyboards and Logitech Mice, but in the recent years, Logitech surpassed Microsoft as the better keyboard maker, and I'm very happy with their hardware. My secret weapon is not my keyboard, but my trackball actually. I switched because of a finger pain, and it took me half a day to get used to it. It doesn't have a "heavy" scroll wheel like m705 or MX Anywhere 2 has, b…

Logitechs mechanical keyboards are pretty good. I love the MX mechanical line, I have a mini simply because I don't need a numpad but the full size is also great

Re: My favorite keyboards

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Post by hmeh »

ryan_n wrote: post #54
gempir wrote: post #15

I really didn't enjoy the cheap plastic construction of the Moonlander. I had two of them for home and work. I even modded a mousepad onto the wristrests to make it more comftable. But in the end the housing being out of plastic, it creaked, wobbled and just was not satisfying to type on. I came from premium mechnical keyboards with solid steel or aluminum construction. I ended up with the Neo Ergo, a middle ground.…

Yea I used the kinesis 360 for a short time but couldn't stand how cheap it felt. Such a big difference from nicer custom keyboards, and it's essentially the same price which is a shame.

A custom one is worth it in my opinion. Mine feels quite nice. Not 100% of a gasket mount heavy keyboard, but pretty darn close. Took a while to find the switches that worked for me, but I love it. Also, I have lots of sound deadening in it that help make it feel and sound more solid.

But yeah, the stock browns are pretty bad and the plasticky case doesn't sound great stock.

Re: My favorite keyboards

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Post by TacticalCoder »

chao- wrote: post #5

After a decade of exploring various mechanical keyboards (a few form factors, but mostly exploring the switches), I settled on a Topre Realforce around 2016 and fell in love. I later learned of the Topre silent switches (often branded as "Type-S"), and have used those ever since over many few boards: a HHKB, a Leopold FC660C with a PCB swap for programmable layers, various revisions of the Realforce. I used a friend'…

Same. I used to be on keyboard forums, looking for the holy grail. Eventually I tried Topre switches a bit more than 10 years ago and haven't ever looked back.

I'm using a HHKB Pro JP (although I've got japanese family I don't speak japanese): because the japanese version has got a narrower space bar and more modifiers. So I configured to have, for example, an "Hyper" key. Also for the space bar is narrower, the modifiers are easier to reach with the thumbs.

I decided to camp on this because my thinking went like this: the country of Japan and the language of japanese is unlikely to disappear, so it's very probable that I'll be able to buy Topre keyboards with that exact layout for a very long time.

Same thing: I cannot get into the MX switches (I own a few nice Cherry keyboard, like the elusive split Cherry MX-5000).

It's Topre and nothing else.

Re: My favorite keyboards

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Post by eimrine »

variadix wrote: post #140
otherme123 wrote: post #22

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My experience switching layout is poor. I touch typed Qwerty at around 75 WPM. I switched to Colemak, and after a month or so of Monkeytype I am back at around 75 WPM but didn't gain significant speed. I never had serious wrist pain, so I can't say Colemak helped with that. After sharing this with some people, it turns out that a lot of speed gains, and maybe wrist pain improvement, comes from people that switch from…

I largely agree. Split, ortho/columnar, and tenting is 90% of the strain benefits. The biggest benefit from layout change (for programmers at least) is moving symbols and numbers to a layer where they share positions with alpha keys so you don’t have to extend to type them. Any benefit I could imagine from switching alpha layouts (more even utilization between left and right hand for typing prose) is mitigated by the…

Just ask the normal computer owner to set the proper layout for that 5 minutes you will be tinkering with the normal computer, it does not need root or any complicated setup.

Re: My favorite keyboards

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Post by monkey26 »

I'm a keyboard nerd.. After nearly 15 years on an Advantage, I went down the rabbit hole all the way down to 34 key boards, and everything in between. But you know? The *best* developers I know, use a cheap keyboard, usually a Dell one, that you can find closets full of and have never thought about switching. Funny. I've bought of a few of these devs nicer mechanicals as gifts, and they've never been appreciated.

Re: My favorite keyboards

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Post by ryan_n »

hmeh wrote: post #142
ryan_n wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yea I used the kinesis 360 for a short time but couldn't stand how cheap it felt. Such a big difference from nicer custom keyboards, and it's essentially the same price which is a shame.

A custom one is worth it in my opinion. Mine feels quite nice. Not 100% of a gasket mount heavy keyboard, but pretty darn close. Took a while to find the switches that worked for me, but I love it. Also, I have lots of sound deadening in it that help make it feel and sound more solid. But yeah, the stock browns are pretty bad and the plasticky case doesn't sound great stock.

What switches did you end up on? I've tried a bunch, but yet to find my "end game" switch so to say

Re: My favorite keyboards

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Post by microflash »

w4rh4wk5 wrote: post #11

For anyone interested in a single-body, low-profile mechanical keyboard with a split layout, checkout PERIBOARD-335. Highly recommend it.

Or PERIBOARD-413 if you need steeper angle. Perixx keyboards are cheap (and you’ll feel this cheapness every time you use them) but that’s why they are so good: a low-barrier entry to try out ergonomic keyboards before moving on to something more premium.

Re: My favorite keyboards

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Post by petepete »

_thisdot wrote: post #29
petepete wrote: post #19

I learnt to type on an Acorn Archimedes 3000 which had Ctrl to the left of A. I was so happy to find HHKBs in the late 00s had the same feature and have been using once since. I wouldn't mind never having a CapsLock again.

But you don't need your physical keyboard to do that. Couldn't you have brought any keyboard that you liked and remapped the Caps Lock key to Ctrl? I have it remapped to Backspace in all of my keyboards

I know, I'd like to reward the companies who do it properly though. Well, company.

Re: My favorite keyboards

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Post by michael1999 »

GloriousKoji wrote: post #106
michael1999 wrote: post #75

I wish I could find a Model M Space Saver with modern OS keys. I love the springs.

Wish granted. https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/MINI_M

Fun! Thank you. I wonder if I can find Mac keycaps and swap those in software. Their Mac versions are all full-size.
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