Contemplating spending decent money on a computer keyboard. I need to know what a good keyboard is. Like, not too clacky, pleasing to type with. Maybe programmable lights. Is there a keyboard showroom? Or do I need to find my way to keyboard nerd YouTube? Are you a keyboard nerd?
@brittcoxon No, but I know a man who is.
@Xander, what's a good keyboard. Now before you get all excited, I mean for a normal person.
@brittcoxon @DemonTomatoDave Hahaha. I suspect he meant that relative to me. I’m a Twitch streamer and own approximately 200 keyboards.
@brittcoxon @DemonTomatoDave For “not too clacky, pleasing to type with” I would suggest Topre. Layout preferences will be an important factor here though so depends if you want a UK/EU style (ISO standard) layout or a US style (ANSI); the former significantly limits options but they do exist. But if you go Topre then you only really have one option with RGB LEDs and they are basically the worst version of a Topre keyboard.
@brittcoxon @DemonTomatoDave If you need ISO and both the RGB and relative silence is important then you’re likely going to be looking at a Cherry MX style keyboard with silenced switches but having tried a lot of them I’ve very rarely been particularly impressed. It’s a whole minefield this stuff though so figuring out what your preferences are when you don’t yet fully know what the variables are yet is a big part of it!
@Xander @DemonTomatoDave Would getting something hot swappable but reasonably cheap be a good starting point, so I can change the switches out to my preference?
@DemonTomatoDave @brittcoxon If you want silence though you’re best getting one without switches and then buying some quiet switches to test out
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