And to be clear, MX is virtually trash as tactiles or clickies. Their reedeming value comes exclusively from the boards and keycaps.
Modern mx clicky switches certainly aren't trash, and mx tactiles could become better if manufacturers start basing switches on the tactile configuration in the zeal clickiez.
What are some good MX clicky switches in your opinion? I haven't found any. Click bar switches sound horrible. Clickiez could have been good but sound way worse than Alps clicky switches that the design is based on and the feel is nowhere near. Way, way, way too sharp tactility.
Like no offense but this is the most basic ***** take I've ever seen, especially since one Dutchman got so popular and people decided to take his words as gospel and not suggestion.
Want to know my unpopular opinion?
There is no best switch. Every switch is designed with different purposes in mind. Alps has a different design philosophy to MX, and those are different from MY, and Mitsumi mini mechs, and every other switch.
It's not even my take! I stole it!
To be fair, the PURPOSE of a keyboard switch is probably pretty much the same for any switch ever made. And while the swearing dutchman surely has swayed people to hating on Cherry MX, he's not exactly wrong either. And I agree with the above poster regarding clicky switches. For tactile switches there are good MX ones, but any modern aluminium, gasket mount, O-ring, bandaidmodded or whatever trendy keyboard is not going to sound as nice as a bulkier vintage keyboard with, for example, Alps tactiles. And one glaring omission in the list of things Cherry MX does better than Alps, they aren't 90% likely to be scratchy and horrible on basically any board that has them because of their sensitivity to dust.
Only such a detail that the click sound and the switch activation are completely synchronized makes typing on CBS so much more enjoyable for me. They're also in my opinion the kind of feel that you should strive for in a clicky switch. Light but sharp tactility and a chunky sound (though that's obviously a matter of opinion). I'll forgive anyone that can't stand a Model F due to the pinging.
As for my own "unpopular opinion" (which probably isn't) Blue Alps, while very nice, are overhyped and overpriced (probably in part due to the fellow mentioned above). Don't get me wrong, they blow any Cherry MX compatible clicky switch out of the water both in feel and sound, but you can get basically all the way there by just click modding basically any other Alps switch that are much more common and accessible. The difference between a click modded black alps and a genuine blue one does not warrant the price increase. I'm guessing this is also true if you linearize them and compare with rare linear Alps switches. Linearizing or click-modding also has the effect of mostly negating the horrible scratchiness of a lot of tactile alps switches you can find today has, by the way.
Oh, and keycap sets that have legends that say something else than what the key actually does is stupid. This includes having symbols such as leaves, shovels or whatever ("novelties").
