Mechanical Keyboard Recommendations?

I like Brown, the Corsair I use has them, but I’d be happy with that same tactile in a silent package. I don’t think it’s possible? O-rings help a bit…

I prefer the Topre switches (made popular by Happy Hacking keyboarda). I have a RealForce 104 key. Fairly silent, too.
(I’m not gaming much, no idea if it’s good for that.)

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I’ve been a MX Black and Brown user for several year. Using MX Silver now.
Still got MX Brown in a spare keyboard, but those Silver also feel really good.

Mhmm now i am looking to the Ducky shine 7 sadly i am very unsure about taking a keyboard with the numpad or not I have a logitech g pro that I won in a Lan recently at home I never use the numpad but at work maybe a numpad is better I am used to it.

Mx silent is really a must at my work since it’s an open office what do you guys think? Ducky Shine 7 (CH, Cable) - buy at digitec

Resurrecting this long dead thread :smiley: I happily used my Lily58 Pro for everything up until June 2024. I ended up moving to something new after accepting the well-known issue that the thumb cluster isn’t well designed (which is why the Sofle was created).

After a few months deliberating, I finally decided to go with the Kinesis Advantage360 with Gateron Brown switches. In the process of getting used to it’s very unique layout, I actually used pieces of card to force each of my fingers to stay in their appropriate columns (on a traditional keyboard I only type with 3 fingers total, I managed to improve this a bit with my Lily58 Pro, but figured now would be the time to fix it properly).

My lord, this is the comfiest keyboard I’ve ever used in my life! I love using this thing every day, and would strongly recommend it to anyone regularly typing a lot. My only pain point has been gaming; due to the varying key heights and correct finger placement, you end up having to re-bind all keys one key to the right for each game. Of course, you could setup a profile on the keyboard directly that does this for you; however, then all of your keys will be mislabelled in-game :stuck_out_tongue:

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Wow, interesting layout. I haven’t tried (or even heard about) those switches. My keyboard is a boring looking 102 key RealForce Topre switch keyboard. I like it very much.
There’s quite a few more Topre options these days, like here:

Not sure how it’s with gaming, though. (I’m not gaming, just sysadmin and coding.) :innocent: :nerd_face:

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