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There's excellent rubber domes and people have been typing properly on them for 30 years. You don't need mechanical switches, you just like them. I keep a few
by mnl 4y ago
There's excellent rubber domes and people have been typing properly on them for 30 years. You don't need mechanical switches, you just like them.
I keep a few nice 90s' ones from HP and IBM. Sun's sucked yet people typed a lot on those. There's been decent ones from Dell and you can still get older IBM/Lenovo Preferred Pros. They're fine. I don't think switching to rubber domes back then was a cost cutting measure, that's peanuts for the prices of those systems. Noise was considered distracting, maybe stressful, actually sustained noise is. If you shared a lab with 30 people banging on Model Ms you'd agree. Mechanicals are great for gaming, I give you that.
- fargle 4y ago> Mechanicals are great for gaming. They are also excellent for typing. I can type much faster and more accurately when I have tactile feedback like: https://www.cherrymx.de/cherry-mx/mx-special/mx-clear.html#techSpecs https://www.cherrymx.de/cherry-mx/mx-special/mx-clear.html#t... I don't even game at all. > If you shared a lab with 30 people banging on Model Ms you'd agree. What if you shared a lab with 30 Selectric typewriters or couple line printers? I did. People complaining about the "noise" from Cherry clears and similar are over-reacting. > you just like them I do! And you don't! and guess who's keyboard it is? This is why I'm testy. People like different things. When that happens: mind your own business and cope. It's no more inconvenient for you to hear my (not that loud) "silent" cherry clears than for you to impose on me to have to type on a keyboard that doesn't work for me. And we can all agree that the guy that cooks fish in the microwave is our shared enemy.