I was in the past 48hours browsing for one of their KB's and this overreaction on their behalf and the whole concept of "cloud" keyboards, has made me reflect and decide not to give them my dollars.
User banned from Das Keyboard forums for telling people of open-source drivers
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Re: User banned from Das Keyboard forums for telling people of open-source drivers
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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.
There are other, possibly better options if you want Topre switches - the Leopold FC660M, the HHKB Professional and the Cooler Master Novatouch. The latter has the advantage of using Cherry MX compatible stems, if you ever want to change the keycaps. Personally, I'm of the opinion that even tenkeyless keyboards are too wide for most right-handed users - unless you're very broad-shouldered, you'll either have to skew…
I'm in the same boat, I find these benefits of a 60% keyboard to be well worth it. Desk space, and a large mouse pad seem to pay dividends, particularly with multiple monitors.
Re: User banned from Das Keyboard forums for telling people of open-source drivers
#93If 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.
Don't forget Topre. I use a Kinesis but I know many amazing programmers who swear by Topre.
Love my topre keyboard. Would love to have another one just for my office. They are definitely pricey, but I vastly prefer the "soft clunk" of their feel for typing. Ideally I would like to find an ergonomic keyboard with topre switches, but I don't know if such a keyboard really exists.
Re: User banned from Das Keyboard forums for telling people of open-source drivers
#94If 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.
Don't forget Topre. I use a Kinesis but I know many amazing programmers who swear by Topre.
I also use a Kinesis (Advantage) which… glitches out sometimes, but once you get past the first month of being totally incapable of typing it's a pretty excellent coding keyboard comfort wise (gaming - particularly RTS - can be some work though, given its odd layout)
It surprises me that most of the nice key switch keyboards are all standard layout though, rather than more ergonomic options like the Advantage.
Re: User banned from Das Keyboard forums for telling people of open-source drivers
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't forget Topre. I use a Kinesis but I know many amazing programmers who swear by Topre.
I also use a Kinesis (Advantage) which… glitches out sometimes, but once you get past the first month of being totally incapable of typing it's a pretty excellent coding keyboard comfort wise (gaming - particularly RTS - can be some work though, given its odd layout) It surprises me that most of the nice key switch keyboards are all standard layout though, rather than more ergonomic options like the Advantage.
Yeah gaming is a challenge. I'm a SC:BW guy so I have to pull out my old faithful DT35 for that :).
Curious what glitches you get?
I made the Kinesis and Dvorak switch at the same time and it was pretty debilitating! Twitter is surprisingly good for a practice medium because your thoughts have to be so short that you don't get the "my mind is 4 sentences ahead of my hands" problem you get with prose.
Re: User banned from Das Keyboard forums for telling people of open-source drivers
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just wanted to put in a good word for WASD Keyboards. Mine has been solid as a rock, I'm still very pleased with it after 4 years of ownership. I think it was Jeff Atwood (of Coding Horror fame) who turned me on to them in the first place. (No association at all, just wanted to share my experience).
Since then Jeff Atwood launched his own keyboard. https://codekeyboards.com Edit. Never mind, looked up WASD and they appear to be linked to Code
I bought the tenkeyless CODE keyboard with Cherry MX Clears a few months ago, and I love this thing. Not so cheap outside the US, mind. Had to pay a pretty penny at customs.
Re: User banned from Das Keyboard forums for telling people of open-source drivers
#97Sounds like they're in the Modder's market: > The Das Keyboard 5Q is a cloud connected keyboard allowing users to display color notifications on each key. Notifications can come from applications such as Twitter, Gmail, eBay, Facebook and many others. Hundreds of applications can be configured via IFTTT and Zapier, transforming the 5Q keyboard into a RGB dashboard. An open REST API is also available for programmers.…
Oh reminds me of the Optimus keyboard. It seemed like an ambitious idea a decade ago, each key was supposed to be an individual display. Afaik, it never made it into production. https://www.artlebedev.com/optimus/ - the website doesn't work properly, so I'm guessing you still can't buy one?
I own an optimus popularis. They only ever sold small quantities. Cool idea but not worth it.
Re: User banned from Das Keyboard forums for telling people of open-source drivers
#98It always seemed odd to me that an American company tries to use an ostensibly German brand name to imply quality, instead of going for Made in US. Of course, they don't make these in the US... they're made by some contractors in China and/or Taiwan.
Sorry to break this to you but outside the US "made in the US" is up there with "made in China" as an indicator of quality.
Same with 'Made in the UK'. The scene in The IT Crowd where the fire extinguisher sets on fire, and Moss turns it around to reveal 'Made in the UK' always crack me up.
Re: User banned from Das Keyboard forums for telling people of open-source drivers
#99I 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?
Not missing anything, sounds spooky.
Re: User banned from Das Keyboard forums for telling people of open-source drivers
#100If 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.
Does anyone like the Unicomp line as I do? I love the faithful recreation of classic Model Ms.