Oddbean

i'm still typing on a keyboard from 3 years ago only problem i've encountered is that USB hubs sometimes don't send enough power and the keyboard stops behaving nicely the only thing i regret is that i still can't get a 90 key ortholinear or especially, a 90 key ortholinear with magnetic sensing switches that can all be used with full throttling (then i could make music with it and do more fun stuff with games)

How often do people usually purchase keyboards??? I didn't know this was a thing. I usually have more issues with USB2 devices in USB3 ports than anything. I have to purchase motherboards with at least two USB2 ports.

part of the reason why i became a mech keyboard freak was after killing dozens of shitty membrane keyboards i can destroy one in about a year, laptop keyboards are even more delicate, maybe 6 months i can kill one of those my current keyboard, i have two of them, one for backup, the switches are socketed so i can pull them out and replace them if i need to the switches stand up to way more usage than membrane switches though, i mean, probably i could get away with not getting another keyboard for 10 years, pretty much if i do get another one it's going to be because it has more keys, i'd like at least 90 so i can have a dedicated number pad on it. there is a cherry POS ortholinea that i've had my eyes on, it has 140 keys... but for now i'm good, really i just want the 90 key 5x18 grid

well, you read my posts... that's part of the reason why i love these ortholinear mech keyboards and why i type dvorak layout... it's literally because i type so much... if you typed as much as me you wolud also want light keys, mechanical, and ortho too

Yes I remember your keyboard posts, I haven't actually tried using anything other than a "qwerty" setup. How long did it take you to switch? I'm currently on brown keys, i used to be on red which is very light. This dell has very, very heavy keys. I do really like the reds but most of the leds are burn out and it bothers me so I use a cheaper mech with the brows now.

it took me about a week of 2h a day doing typing lessons with the new layout before i could type again without looking and about 3 weeks i was typing faster because it was less strain... dvorak is definitely superior i'd be willing to modify the layout further if i had a tool that tracks the frequency and sequencing of keypresses to figure out if they could be optimized further, but it's pretty good as it is

i broke a laptop keyboard once by spilling wine over it 😳 apart from that i don't think i've ever broke a keyboard, and i type *a lot* last time i bought a keyboard is because i wanted a fancy rgb led keyboard lol, most of my keyboards are >10y old

my typing output is at least over 5000 words a day on average... "a lot" is quite relative i also have issues with pain from typing, so i really like these super light gateron whites - had cherry silvers before... the gaterons springs have 38nm resistance force and actuate just under 2mm down, so i don't have to push very hard on them if you read what people say about these kind of "fast" switches most say "you make more typos" but i have not found that to be the case... maybe at first, yes, but once you get used to the light touch you don't

btw, if average keystrokes per word is 6 then that means 30,000 keystrokes per day if you look at the specs on many keyboard switches they are only rated to run for about 1,000,000 which works out to 33 days per key only mechanical keyboards can withstand this much work... i've had many keyboards crap out on me between 1 and 2 years after buying them

Funny thing. My daily driver (until very recently) was a Corsair K95 (correction) and is currently a cheapie RGB. The K95 is only white, and this board I leave set to unicorn poop so all the colors wear evenly and I just don't care lol. I still pull out the K95 but I just beat the crap out of the red switches because I'm used to really heavy switches now.