Mechanical Keyboards

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Best build so far (lemmy.nz)

submitted 1 week ago by rektdeckard@lemmy.world to c/mechanicalkeyboards@lemmy.ml

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My third(ish) build and favorite so far.

QwertyKeys Neo Ergo board
Keygeek Cheese V2 linear switches
Keykobo Dolch key caps
(still waiting on the palm wrest but I might carve my own)

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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ever tried something else than QWERTY? I'm on Colemak-DH since about a year or so and it's pretty great. 🙂 I imagine that could be great with a keyboard like this.

[–] rektdeckard@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Never have. Do you find it hard to switch back and forth if you ever have to use laptop keyboard / somebody else's computer?

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Great question. Not "hard", no. 🙂 I've been using QWERTY for almost 40 years, so that's pretty ingrained. Like riding a bike. Also I'm still on QWERTY on my phone.

But, I do type slower on a regular keyboard nowadays. Partly because I changed my layout, and partly because the ZSA Voyager, which is my main keyboard, is both split and column-staggered, rather than row-staggered like most keyboards. It's hard to go back to rowstag after getting used to colstag. Rowstag just feels so incredibly wrong. Not at all meant for a human hand. 🤖