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Well, as a bog-standard person, I use Logitech MX Keys Mini 2 (with Bolt support). It's good enough for typing for long sessions and reliable enough to type on

Well, as a bog-standard person, I use Logitech MX Keys Mini 2 (with Bolt support). It's good enough for typing for long sessions and reliable enough to type on without much thinking. It has great features though. Automatic backlight and standby via hall & ambient light sensors, great key texture and weight, scissor switches instead of bog-standard membrane, etc. It's not a mechanical keyboard and not smooth as one, but it's not an enemy of fingers and hands. Logitech's bolt receiver is great though. Encrypted, low latency and has native Linux support via Solaar. I have 3 mechanical keyboards, but one is too big, others are not in my native layout and miss a couple of keys which I need for certain characters, so they are delegated to long coding sessions at home.

mghackerlady 4mo ago
Logitech is by far the best "get shit done" PC accessory manufacturer. They work, last forever, and have options for nearly every niche there is
- bayindirh 4mo ago
  For the longest time, I was preferring Microsoft keyboards and Logitech Mice, but in the recent years, Logitech surpassed Microsoft as the better keyboard maker, and I'm very happy with their hardware. My secret weapon is not my keyboard, but my trackball actually. I switched because of a finger pain, and it took me half a day to get used to it. It doesn't have a "heavy" scroll wheel like m705 or MX Anywhere 2 has, but it's actually much better than mice for me. Also it's much more ergonomic without being awkward.
  - mghackerlady 4mo ago
    Logitechs mechanical keyboards are pretty good. I love the MX mechanical line, I have a mini simply because I don't need a numpad but the full size is also great
121789 4mo ago
yep. I've tried everything from a bunch of mechanical keyboards to topre keyboards and I finally just came back to the mx keys mini, the magic keyboard mini, and the logitech mechanical mini. they just feel the best over the long term and are close enough to my laptop keyboard that it doesn't feel like I'm making a big change.
- bayindirh 4mo ago
  Two of my mechanical keyboards are "low profile", and they are very smooth & comfortable, but they feel niche/custom enough that they need more brain power to operate. As I noted, they're en-US layout, and I can touch type it, but I need my native alphabet and letters while typing daily, so I get them out when I'm going to code at home. The best part of MX Keys Mini is not the switches but the materials. They are heavy duty and made to be typed on it, all day, every day. Combined with auto-layouting it has, it's a very practical device, esp. if you're using multiple different machines at the same time. Logitech's wireless keyboards, as you know, automatically switch modifier key layouts when you switch between Mac and PC hosts.
  - 121789 3mo ago
    agree with you. my home device is a PC and work is Mac and it switches between them seamlessly

mghackerlady 4mo ago

Logitech is by far the best "get shit done" PC accessory manufacturer. They work, last forever, and have options for nearly every niche there is

bayindirh 4mo ago
For the longest time, I was preferring Microsoft keyboards and Logitech Mice, but in the recent years, Logitech surpassed Microsoft as the better keyboard maker, and I'm very happy with their hardware. My secret weapon is not my keyboard, but my trackball actually. I switched because of a finger pain, and it took me half a day to get used to it. It doesn't have a "heavy" scroll wheel like m705 or MX Anywhere 2 has, but it's actually much better than mice for me. Also it's much more ergonomic without being awkward.
- mghackerlady 4mo ago
  Logitechs mechanical keyboards are pretty good. I love the MX mechanical line, I have a mini simply because I don't need a numpad but the full size is also great

121789 4mo ago

yep. I've tried everything from a bunch of mechanical keyboards to topre keyboards and I finally just came back to the mx keys mini, the magic keyboard mini, and the logitech mechanical mini. they just feel the best over the long term and are close enough to my laptop keyboard that it doesn't feel like I'm making a big change.

bayindirh 4mo ago
Two of my mechanical keyboards are "low profile", and they are very smooth & comfortable, but they feel niche/custom enough that they need more brain power to operate. As I noted, they're en-US layout, and I can touch type it, but I need my native alphabet and letters while typing daily, so I get them out when I'm going to code at home. The best part of MX Keys Mini is not the switches but the materials. They are heavy duty and made to be typed on it, all day, every day. Combined with auto-layouting it has, it's a very practical device, esp. if you're using multiple different machines at the same time. Logitech's wireless keyboards, as you know, automatically switch modifier key layouts when you switch between Mac and PC hosts.
- 121789 3mo ago
  agree with you. my home device is a PC and work is Mac and it switches between them seamlessly