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Re: User banned from Das Keyboard forums for telling people of open-source drivers

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Post by roel_v »

ElCapitanMarkla wrote: post #79

Just out of curiosity, what's everyone's prefered keyboard these days? I was getting aches in my hands / wrists so I grabbed a MS Sculpt L5V-00001 last year and couldn't be happier with it. After working on a Macbook (2013 style, not the new ones) for the last few years I can't really see myself going for something with a huge amount of key travel anymore.

Have used Ergodox for 2 years, quite satisfied with it, but I can't get used to not having labels. I received my Ultimate Hacker Keyboard (unfortunate name...) last week but haven't had a chance yet to plug it in - I imagine there will be some switching cost that I don't have time for. But it looks very well build, and it has proper labels printed on all keys, yay.

Re: User banned from Das Keyboard forums for telling people of open-source drivers

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Post by roel_v »

skipthemeat wrote: post #36

Any recommendations for a quiet mechanical keyword (or switch)?

Buy yourself a key switch tester before you decide, it really helped me out (mostly to know the difference in sound between white/brown and green/blue). I forgot where I bought mine from, but I see you can get them off Banggood for $15 now.

Re: User banned from Das Keyboard forums for telling people of open-source drivers

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Post by taejo »

CrystalGamma wrote: post #80
genericid wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Das Keyboard" is grammaticaly correct, but useless when you need the letters i-z.

Yes but it refers to an electronic musical keyboard, not a computer keyboard, which is indeed „Tastatur”.

Hence "i-z" (in Germany the notes of the chromatic scale go up to H; the German H = English B, Germany B = English B-flat).

Re: User banned from Das Keyboard forums for telling people of open-source drivers

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Post by iKirin »

jdietrich wrote: post #72
wastedhours wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd also say that I've got a Ducky Shine 3 TKL with Cherry Browns as well as a cheaper generic TKL with Gateron Browns, and the latter are at least as good to me - always worth getting a switch tester, but you can shave a decent amount off by choosing non-Cherry clones.

I actually prefer the feel of the Gateron Browns. Several reviewers have commented on the smoother, less gritty feel compared to MX Browns.

Same here. Gat Browns are much smoother and I feel the tactile bump is more noticeable.

Re: User banned from Das Keyboard forums for telling people of open-source drivers

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Post by squarefoot »

Freak_NL wrote: post #24
eertami wrote: post #4

If you're looking for a high quality cherry switched keyboard, Das was already company you wanted to avoid - and now possibly even moreso. Das is definitely a "brand over product" company and the market is flooded with much better alternatives, eg Leopold, Varmilo, IKBC, Vortex, Filco, etc.

I've bought three DasKeyboard Model S's, and so far I've had one starting to fail on me (one block of keys not getting their key presses registered) in five years (I have one at home and one at the office in use). That's not a bad track record, but I did notice a decline in their offering. The newer Model S introduced the 'fn' key left of the left super-button, resizing that one in the process. Now the old key-caps d…

My IBM model M I got in the mid-late 90s has a "Lotus 1-2-3 Release 2.2" sticker in the area over the function keys. That should make it about 28 years old and not a single key ever failed. Missing Windows keys are a nice feature also :)

Re: User banned from Das Keyboard forums for telling people of open-source drivers

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Post by lowry »

dingaling wrote: post #40
ericdykstra wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll throw my support for Filco here. I've been using the same Filco Majestouch Tenkeyless with Cherry Browns as my only home keyboard for 10 years, and it's as good as it was on the day I bought it. Absolutely fantastic build quality.

My Filco Majestouch lasted barely a year before the USB cable failed at the keyboard end. It's currently lying in the corner whilst I try to stomach paying £25 for a third-party cable made with their custom internal connector. I'd prefer if they just had a USB female socket on the keyboard and then I could use any cable. Why do keyboards have hard-wired cables anyhow? They have plenty of space for a socket and it wou…

I ordered a new one from https://pexonpcs.co.uk/products/filco-cables but you can also make your own USB cable yourself if you manage to get the right connector. FYI, the female socket on the Filco keyboard breaks apart when pulling the USB cable, it's made of very fragile plastic.

Re: User banned from Das Keyboard forums for telling people of open-source drivers

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Post by squarefoot »

Aardwolf wrote: post #47

I don't understand that. You buy a keyboard for the hardware, no? It's the switches and individual diodes and good materials that make it expensive. What makes it more profitable selling a keyboard with proprietary drivers, than one that their users can hack at will? Especially given the target audience of this one. edit: I don't even know why a keyboard would need drivers :p but if it's for fancy colored LEDs or so,…

"edit2: oh. cloud connected keyboard. ok."

Ouch... A keyboard with closed source and cloud connected drivers isn't exactly something I'd want to write my passwords with, or am I missing something?

Re: User banned from Das Keyboard forums for telling people of open-source drivers

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Post by tazard »

gambiting wrote: post #62
eertami wrote: post #4

If you're looking for a high quality cherry switched keyboard, Das was already company you wanted to avoid - and now possibly even moreso. Das is definitely a "brand over product" company and the market is flooded with much better alternatives, eg Leopold, Varmilo, IKBC, Vortex, Filco, etc.

I own two Corsair keyboards, the Strafe RGB(with Red Silent switches for office use) and a K68 with Red switches for home - they are both fantastic, and Corsair support has been nothing but stellar for me - the Strafe had a small issue with one of the keys, they have shipped a replacement straight away and only then I had to ship the old keyboard back. Well worth the money, and the software is very decent too.

As a counter, I had a K95 which started having some pretty annoying chatter (double pressing semicolons among other things) just before my year warranty was up, they replaced it without issue but then the replacement started having the same problem + dead LEDs. Except then it was a few months later and the original warranty expired so they refused to fix/replace it.

Also the keyboard is much to... Advanced?... So it doesn't get recognized when I attempt to enter the bios, so I needed to have a backup keyboard around just in case.

Re: User banned from Das Keyboard forums for telling people of open-source drivers

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Post by michaelt »

Denip wrote: post #33

They had a lot of drama with the production of the 5Q keyboard also as it was crowdfunded. Still don't quite understand why an established keyboard company needed to crowdfund a keyboard...

There's really no reason a company wouldn't crowdfund, it's free capital.

Investors or a bank loan will demand creditworthiness, interest payments, penalties for late repayment, and if you can't make the promised product or customers don't buy it, they can bankrupt your company.

With crowdfunding you have none of those obligations. No credit check, no interest, and you can deliver a late, low quality product, or nothing whatsoever, and the only cost is to your reputation.

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