Whatever up until about 2012. Sysadmin at work had a
Unicomp Buckling Spring. I got one after trying it out. Coworkers in the dev room did not like it so it became my home driver.
At that point I knew I did not want a "regular" keyboard. Employer had a
Siig Minitouch in a box somewhere in storage that I found. Used that without knowing it was technically mechanical, I just liked how it felt.
Saw custom
Poker 2 on reddit:
So I got one with mx blues. Used it for a few weeks: coworkers still did not like it but was better than the buckling spring that the sysadmin insisted on using. Sysadmin ended up leaving eventually (unrelated), and so my poker 2 became the most hated board at work.
I'm a dev so I would occasionally read Jeff Atwood posts, saw his
CODE with mx clears and had to have it. Used that for a good long while.
Got a new job, the CODE connection was getting loose so I started looking on reddit for a new board idea. Found the
CM Novatouch, silenced on r/mechmarket and it made me so happy.
Realized that topre is life so eventually got the
Leopold FC660C. Still loved clears and loved the idea of reactive backlighting so got the
Pok3r with white leds. Also ended up getting the Norbauer case for my novatouch and a GMMK TKL to test switches.
Started going to meetups, felt so many cool keyboards. Decided I need to make my own boards to finish endgaming.
My final lineup will always include:
- Space Station case-lined Norbatouch w/ BKE Lights on alphas, BKE Heavy's on mods, silenced w/ hyperspheres (or keyclack v2 rings if they ever come out), lubed, with black PPS keycaps and CMY blank PBT accent mods.
- FC660C w/ stock domes, lubed, landing pad silenced, custom resin modifiers and POM alphas. Will add the heavy-6 case to it when that's completed.
My future builds are:
- MX Zilent 60% build
- Holy Panda 60% build
One will have RGB backlighting, one might have underglow. I plan to program my own lighting modes at some point. Then I'm done.
Then after that I might just be interested in minor adjustments to the boards and maybe getting keysets to change things up.