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Honest personal opinion is that all of this stuff is a bit much. I agree that the stock keyboard you get with pcs and most laptops are a joke, but for most peop
by ramraj07 6y ago
Honest personal opinion is that all of this stuff is a bit much. I agree that the stock keyboard you get with pcs and most laptops are a joke, but for most people (even engineers) a decent regular keyboard should be sufficient? Isn't the point of devices like keyboards and mice to disappear from my head so you only think about what's on the screen and what you're doing with it?
If this is what you want to spend your spare time discussing and buying sure, but let's not propagate any pseudo scientific facts about the superiority of mechanical keyboards in any regard. I've only seen people slow down typing in these clackety things going from an apple keyboard and I don't want to be in any zoom meeting with these folks either.
- 1ark 6y agoI had to try and went trying and bought a blue key mech board. They are great for gaming of course. After a year I went back and bought a silent Matias Mac replica keyboard. Used Mac keyboards for many years before, they are soft and low with optimal distance between keys, but enough tactile function to not make mistakes when resting. Perhaps most of us get accustomed to what we have used for the longest time and want to use that.
- munchbunny 6y agoI agree for the most part. There are, however, two cases that come to mind for me as keyboards that did make a substantial difference: 1. Split-key keyboard. Got one when I was getting RSI issues in my wrists. That keyboard really did make a difference. 2. Butterfly keyboard on the Macbook. I hated it. My typing precision suffered. It's certainly subjective, but I was dropping my A's everywhere. Other than that, my current mechanical keyboard has been mainly just a "it feels nice" thing, not a "I'm a better programmer because of it" thing.