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I assume you're talking about the "feel" of Cherry switches. Which many people really like. As for reliability, I don't know how readily available they are any
by PhantomGremlin 6y ago
I assume you're talking about the "feel" of Cherry switches. Which many people really like.
As for reliability, I don't know how readily available they are any more, but IMO the true "gold standard" is Hall Effect, because it's contactless.
Hall effect keyboards used to be quite common 45 years ago in heavy data entry applications (e.g. people who spent their days entering typewritten manuscripts submitted by authors, years before every writer used a word processor).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_technology#Hall-effect_keyboard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_technology#Hall-effec...
Contactless is great because there's no mechanical key bounce or contact wear. Some quick googling showed that Cherry (at least once upon a time) made hall effect keyswitches. But they're probably too expensive for most applications.
- bllguo 6y agothere has actually been renewed interest in hall effect switches recently. See here https://kono.store/products/keystone-analog-mechanical-keyboard https://kono.store/products/keystone-analog-mechanical-keybo... and https://wooting.io/lekker https://wooting.io/lekker not quite readily available, but that may change soon