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Some of these are cool, but I have a few objections to these being the "coolest". These keyboards all appear to have Cherry MX (or clone) switches. So yes, the
by vehemenz 6y ago
Some of these are cool, but I have a few objections to these being the "coolest".
These keyboards all appear to have Cherry MX (or clone) switches. So yes, they are custom, but they are somewhat uniform in the switches themselves.
60% keyboards are a gimmick. The addition of arrow keys and a nav cluster adds an inch to the physical footprint and doesn't affect ergonomics or portability enough to matter.
Unless you routinely type in Japanese, Japanese legends do not add anything but visual clutter.
I don't think any of these are office friendly. Too many bright colors and noisy switches.
This comes down to preference I suppose, but from the /r/mkb subreddit it seems that the demographics of mechanical keyboard community is mostly guys in their teens to mid-twenties and mostly gamers, not programmers and power users. I think it's cool that mechanical keyboards are coming back, but it's unfortunate that stock/custom options are so limited. Maybe this will improve as the community grows up.
- MivLives 6y agoThis seems to be just a recycling list of a lot of the top posts on /r/mkb from the last few months. I'm honestly surprised it's on HN. You'd be surprised how many people are programming on these. The current switches I'm using are about the same volume as rubber domes, and is the keyboard I plan to take back to the office.