I have a couple of them, but to be honest I’m not even sure if I like them more, or less, than rubber membrane keyboards. There’s kind of a sharpness to the sounds they usually produce, almost a kind of plastic-on-plastic squeek, and I find that unpleasant. If I could afford it, or if they were affordable, I might give a Topre keyboard a try, but to be honest I really don’t care enough about keyboards to worry about that.
The only reason I get mechanical keyboards is because those are often the only ones with n-key rollover. It’s all about the games. It’s wild to me that being able to press more than 3 keys simultaneously is still not standard in all keyboards, and it drives me crazy that the vast majority of built-in laptop keyboards have this problem.
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I also think chiclet keyboards are perfectly fine… except again, the lack of key rollover.
I got a mechanical at the advice of enthusiasts on Reddit a while back. This was a couple years ago, and I still find it clunky and cumbersome to use.
And fucking loud. It’s the Razer Blackwidow Stealth, so the keys don’t actively make a click sound, but there’s still a pretty glaring plastic-on-plastic clash with every keystroke. I even bought rubber o-rings to put around the posts under each key, which helped to get it only-slightly-obnoxious.
I miss my scissor-switch keyboard. I don’t want to buy a new one while this one’s still working, but I’m kinda looking forward to when it craps out.
This is kind of where I’m at too. I want to get a preferable keyboard, but feel like doing so would be wrong since I have two perfectly functional keyboards already. Maybe I could give them away at some point.