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Friday Fun Thread for September 20, 2024

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I'm starting another office job which requires a reasonable amount of typing, so instead of using the work supplied keyboard which makes me want to throw it out the window, I'm interested in what input devices everyone uses. I find my YouTube and internet searches aren't definitive, and I really don't want to spend a grotesque amount of time and money on finding the right keyboard. My current criteria are:

  • I prefer linear over tactile or clicky. I hate clicky the most.

  • Full size is preferred. I use the num pad for work

  • Hall effect is a plus

  • Minimal out of box tinkering, even if it comes at some premium.

What keyboards are you using?

Kinesis Freestyle2 Blue. Decided to try it out on a whim and turned out a split keyboard is surprisingly convenient.

I'm surprised the number of responses that recommended split keyboards. Maybe I should look into those more closely.

When I started using a split keyboard, I realized that I pressed the "B" key with my right index finger. That took some adjusting. Kinesis Gaming Freestyle Edge.

I'll add my voice to the split keyboard users. In my case, I tried out the OG M$ ergonomic keyboard as an experiment because being left-handed, my index finger had a nasty habit of trying to type keys meant for my right index finger. All these years later, I just inadvertently killed my M$ Natural 4000 and am strongly considering picking up a used version to keep me going

Mech keyboards are a fucking rabbit hole and a stupid one at that. I have a 20USD Chinese piece of crap with fake blue switches and it's OK. And I also have a 150USD boutique keyboard, which is better but maybe 10% better at best.

Right now I am using some blue clicky mechanical chinesium made keyboard. It cost 15 euro. Not the best I have had but get's the job done. Trying to figure out how to obtain unicomp. I love buckle springs.

UHK with a keychron Q0 numpad on the side

Split keyboard. I think holding my hands close together like on a regular keyboard was hurting my upper back.

Kinesis freestyle 2

Numpads are overrated. I won a nickel in a bet with a coworker that I could type numbers faster without. I love my keyboard.io model 100 split ortholinear walnut thumbcluster keyboard

I used to work a job doing inventories where we used machines that were nothing but a keypad and a one-line LCD display. After banging on that for 8 hours a day I'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who can enter numbers faster than me without one.

Something that bothers me about the whole mechanical keyboard market is that there really is no good way to test keyboard without spending the money. It's more than what I'm willing to spend by about $100, especially if I'm going to be leaving it in an office. I might bring my current keyboard into the office and keep the new keyboard at home.

Yeah, that's rough, and it's not like there's a store you can try it out at . I've had I want to say eight keyboards at about that price point purchased by employers...

I use Unicomp, but it's the mother of all clicky keyboards.

I bought and used one for months before my teammates staged an intervention.

I threatened to fight mine off with the keyboard itself.

I've never quite got the appeal of deep mechanical gaming keyboards for work. I prefer something my fingers will fly over, not sink into.

As such, I like the thin aluminum Apple ones, or similar in office. I still use a thick one for gaming though. Feels more secure in WSAD-position.

IME, the depth and travel allows your fingers to use more force and speed for longer compared to thin keyboards. The amount of typing I do on a regular basis means that the apple keyboard or a laptop keyboard means sore fingers at the end of the day.

For my personal use, I use the GMMK. Unfortunately Glorious caught the stupid and stopped selling full size keyboards, so you would have to get one secondhand. For work I use a Keychron K10, which is also pretty good. I prefer brown switches myself, but the GMMK is customizable and I believe the K10 is too.

Keychron Q6. Full sized, simple, easy to use, and customizable. I never customized it, but it is. One negative is that it's heavy, but I prefer it that way.

I'm leaning toward Keychron myself, but almost everything I heard says they still require modding after work to make them really good. Maybe their higher end models are better out of box experiences.

Depends on what you mean by "really good." I just used mine out of the box and it's better than the others I've used.

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