Mechanical Keyboards

Pros:

• The clickety clack is creamy as hell
• The dial/knob is very useful already
• I really like the LED effects when I'm typing.
• The packaging was superb and it just generally looks amazing

Cons:

• Shipping (unrelated to keyboard):
  • it took 3 weeks to get here
• Keys / Spacebar
  • It's quite a high profile position and I find myself double-hitting the spacebar often which appears to have a hare-trigger
  • The spacebar is needlessly long, and my thumb can't quite reach the Alt or Win key without contorting my hand.
  • On my laptop, the spacebar begins at C and ends at M. Here it starts at X and ends at ,
• Customization
  • Modifying it in Linux is proving to be painful.
    • The qmk cli requires a full reflash, but no easy way to set macros
    • VIA has easy macros, but has no cli just a shitty Electron app that requires you to set your keyboard permissions to World Accessible for chrome to detect it (which is creepy).
• Gaming
  • I knew that some keyboards are better for typing and others for gaming, but I did not think the difference would be so big.
  • The arrow keys could be a lot more responsive
  • I've never noticed this issue with a normal keyboard.

I guess I love the look and feel of it, but it's incredibly frustrating to modify as a linux user and I'm making tons of mistakes with it whilst typing.

Is this all normal? Do I eventually get used to it? Or should I send it back and just use a normal $20 keyboard that I can just type and forget about.