I’ll preface this by saying I’ve only used cherry mx brown switches before.

Recently I decided to try Akko Silver linear switch, and while it feels great when I’m gaming, for work I’ve been getting the tips of my fingertips hurting. Is it just me or are they not for this sort of thing?

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    9 days ago

    I think so. There’s nothing telling your finger when a linear switch is active. That’s why you end up bottoming out, which means you’re using more force and incurring more impact in the finger. One can learn to like anything but typing without bottoming out on linear is playing on hard because you like it. The problem is that if you don’t learn to not bottom out, this does damage to your fingers and it’ll start complaining long term. With that said, typing using the 10-finger system might be more important for avoiding repetitive injury. I imagine overloading several fingers with all keystrokes would be worse than bottoming out. If you type a lot that is. So I’d learn to do that before changing the switches. In any case being able to reliably type without looking is magical. Releases the brain to fully focus on what’s on screen. Or off screen.

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      9 days ago

      Could also add soft, thick o-rings to limit travel and absorb bottom-out force.