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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Systyntono on Fri, 05 July 2024, 14:54:20
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Hi everyone, I'm a Toronto-based designer looking to create something for this community that I love. I'm trying to do some research into the community to better understand it before making my debut.
Currently, I use a Hope75x with Aqua King switches because I don't require a Numpad for my workload. Also, I'm lubing a set of HG Yellow Silent Tactile switches because I'll be living with a roommate in the coming months and don't want to be a disturbance.
Have a great day or night!
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I'm using an ortholinear keyboard with Kailh Choc linears. I like it a lot!
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Linears are life. Layouts vary, but I started on 65%, went to TKL, then ergo/Alice, getting a TGR Lena soon because I miss the arrow cluster and delete key.
Bisoromi's Kikuichimonji https://www.lightningkeyboards.com/work-pt4/kikuichimonji is a great board, the FRL WKL TKL is pretty close to perfect for me, hoping the Lena is even more comfy.
Matrix Navi is a very cool board too.
Thats the what, now the why: Linears just seem smooth, silent linears seem to have come a long way too so they're soft but smooth and not too loud to be distracting. Perfect for work and gaming. Layout is more about how my hands rest on the board naturally and the keys I use most.
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I swap out my boards once or twice a month, as I have a bunch of different layouts and switches, and I enjoy changing things up every now and then. I am currently using my Neo Ergo (tented alice) with MX Blacks (lubed 205g0, F+SS TX XL 70g w/ 105). I quite like the split layout and heavy switches as I type hard. Before that I was using my Sneakbox AVA (standard alice) with a tactile frankenswitch (Panda Stem and spring, cherry housing, lubed 3203, filmed). Before that was my Liberi (65XT) with Nixies (Lubed 205g0, Filmed). I came into the hobby wanting to try a bit of everything, and have pretty much achieved that with my builds, as I pretty much have a board in most common (and a few uncommon) layouts, with a mix of different linears and tactiles. No clickies tho. And I havent delved into Topre because I can't get used to the hhkb layout.
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I'm currently using a Wooting 60. It's modded with DCS Wob keycaps, KS20 Gateron white prelubed and an old Tofu case. I don't really like the layout, but I've gotten used to it. I just love linear switches a lot, and Hall effect switches are especially nice because you can change the activation points. It's actually a very good keyboard for both typing and gaming.
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While I have a decent mix of everything from 40% to full sized, clicky to linear, modern to vintage, high end to budget in my collection. If I was pressed to choose a single layout & switch type to use from now it would be a WKL TKL (F12) with a good top mount & a good gasket mount implementation on it with light linear switches. Even though people like to meme that everything comes back to WKL TKL & MX blacks modded to your preferences once you've tried a good bit of what is out there in the custom KB scene, it proved to be very true for me. A good WKL TKL with really nice deeper sounding light linears is for sure my preferred setup after trying most everything there is to try as far as layouts & switches goes.
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For this year, I’ve been almost exclusively using my own hand-wire builds (https://pixelfed.social/p/wjrii/690693438161138554) with custom layouts, either a tweak to TKL that I think calls back older boards, or 1800 variations that don’t use stabilizers. Most have heavy clickies in them, but one I like has knockoff heavy holy pandas. I just got some JWICK yellow to see if it’s linears I dislike, or just light switches in general.
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For my desktop PC I use either a full-size keyboard or a TKL + Numpad. I prefer either silenced Topre or Silent Brown switches. For my iPad I prefer a 60% or 65% keyboard with Baby Kangeroo switches.
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I have a collection of over 50 mechanical keyboards, including several Filco Majestouch, Realforce, and many others, but my daily drivers at work for the past decade+ has been two of my HHKB Professional 2 keyboards with their iconic Topre switches. Unmarked.
I love these keyboards for a number of reasons.
The smooth, consistent responsiveness of the keys is matched only by the Realforce keyboard.
Their small size makes them ideal for my desk where I need two keyboards, one for email, database management and website testing and another for my development environment, troubleshooting, and research.
Partly vanity. I'm legendary in the office for touch typing all day on keyboards with only 60 unmarked keys.
Security. No one has yet been able to log onto my computer, using their own password, which they have no hope of entering correctly.
The only keyboards I like better are my newer HHKB Professional Hybred Type-S blue tooth keyboards which I use for typing on my phone, one at home and one at work.
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1. Dvorak (https://dvorak-keyboard.com/), because unlike QWERTY, it wasn't designed to deliberately slow people down so they wouldn't jam early mechanical typewriters.
2. Buckling springs, Kailh Box, Topre, ALPS, Space Invader, NEC, Hall Effect, optical, all the Cherry-MX-inspired stuff... Let's see, have I forgotten anything? Probably.
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HHKB and Topre, because someone has to keep good ole family values alive!
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I'm a recent convert to HHKB layout and it happened kind of by accident. I've always been a buckling spring guy, from when I first started finding cheap or free IBM kit in the late nineties. I found a New Model F 62-key at a good price; it uses HHKB layout. It was quite a change from the 122-key IBM board I used before! But I grew to like the layout. Then when I changed jobs and my new boss couldn't stand noisy keyboards, getting an HHKB Type-S was the obvious choice. So now I have Topre at work and capacitive buckling springs at home, both HHKB layout.
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It's been so long since I've used a normal switch. I've been using my FC660C for quite a while and love it. 60-65% is the way to go for me, otherwise.
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For MX keyboards, I use as small as 65, 75, TKL and full size. Nowadays I only use Cherry MX blacks. Too lazy to experiment with switches and imo, all linears are quite similar to each other.
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I started out with TKL in 2016, then went to 65,% then 60%.
Got stuck on the hhkb layout for the better part of 6 years.
Started traveling more for work and was too dependent on the hhkb layout, so went back to 60% so that I would be used to my MacBook keyboard.
I still have 3-4 Hhkb custom boards, but I carry a Logitech 60% (with browns) with me that is my daily. Light and easy, and not worried about breaking it.