I sarted with Planck keyboards and migrated to split - 42 key Corne for now, but my next project is gonna be a 36/34 key Corne or similar.
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I'm on a Keychron V3 base with Gateron Brown switches and PBTfans Dolch caps. I have some foam fillers in the spacebar, but no hardware mods otherwise.
I went with it for similar reasons: programmable + 3 or 5-pin hotswap + TKL + normal profile gave me a lot of flexibility to try different things.
I'm especially happy with the keycaps I settled on. I realized almost immediately that Keychron's stock "OSA" caps weren't for me. Next I tried an ABS shine-through set, which were too hard to read with the backlight disabled and started to develop shine very quickly. PBTfans seems to hit a sweet spot for me: nice texture, comfortable Cherry profile, PBT material doesn't seem to wear too fast, and doubleshot to prevent the legends wearing down.
PBT has also become my favorite keycap material, but I miss the shiny look of well used ABS keys
Daily driver: KBParadise V60 with Cherry Blues and blank white caps and a Great Wave spacebar.
Keychron Q8, which has an Alice layout. I like the layout; it feels pretty familiar since my two previous daily drivers were ortholinear. I switch between the Alice and ortholinear keyboards often, too.
I think I'm not crazy about the switches, though. I got it with Gateron G Pro Reds, which are linear, pre-lubed, and maybe just a little too light for my taste. It's my first and only keyboard with linear switches, and I bottom out too hard on each keystroke. It's a little uncomfortable on the fingertips after a while. I'm trying to adjust how much pressure I use when typing, which is a hard habit to change.
I had the same experience bottoming out with linears. Mine were K-Pro reds, which are fine switches otherwise, but I'm more comfortable with browns. On the plus side they let me type quietly when needed so I'm thinking of trying them in a mobile/tablet/travel keyboard – maybe an Ajazz K620T.
I have two pre-builts from NuPhy right now, the Air96 and the Halo75.
A coworker showed me his Air75 and I was fairly impressed adn started researching... I had been somewhat interested in mechkeebs for a while already but didn't wish to fall into the rabbit hole of custom builds and group buys but didn't like the mass-market offerings such as Logitech's Mini Mech or the Rokkat Vulcan very much either.
Keychron seemed cool but the ones my coworker has all didn't call to me. But the two NuPhys are pretty neat for something that works out of the box!
I have since gotten a bunch of switches to play around with and replaced the keycaps... aaand only recently ordered an Odin 75 kit as my first custom.
Rabbit hole, here we go. :D
I wish it were programmable in VIA instead of NuPhy's software but otherwise their low profile boards look really good to me. I tried a Keychron K3 in the past but strongly dislike their keycaps, and their stabilizers make them incompatible with other brands.
The Odin looks really cool! That little screen should be fun to play with.
This is the first ~~sub~~ mag I searched for. It exists!
I am using the Moonlander. Hoping to see more ortholinear keyboards floating around here.
I've heard good things about the moonlander but never had a chance to try one. How do you find it?
Currently on a wireless Kyria, tented, no case. Switches are Gat X with Sprit Slow II 78g springs on the upper keys and a choc thumb cluster. SA8010 on the MX switches.
My daily driver is a kprepublic BM40 with Zeal tealio switches that I got off of Ebay for a steal and have upgraded since then. I'm gonna eventually replace the switches with something more tactile, I definitely prefer tactile switches over linears.
I've got two that I rotate regularly. Top one is my Kage SE with NOS alps SKCM blues and the bottom one is my Dolphin 2021 Polycarbonate with alps SKCL greens. Eventually I'll finish my Time80 RE polycarb, which is gonna have alps SKCM orange.
I have 3 keyboards right now :
- My first custom keyboard, a Drop Alt with lubbed Holy Pandas ;
- A GMMK Pro with Moon v2 switches that I'm gonna put in my upcoming Think 6.5 v3 => It's my daily driver right now ;
- A Think 6.5 V2 with Gatheron Black Inks v2 ;
I have two atm, one for my home computer (which I primarily game on, plus personal programming projects etc), where I use a 60% KBDFans HHKB Tofu with Zealios. For my work PC I went with something a little bit more ergonomic to save the ol' wrists a bit, and I have a self-built Dactyl Manuform Mini with Zealios also (I just really like Zealios, they're just my favourite way to the fealios).
My current daily driver for my gaming PC is a Drop + Preonic Keyboard MX Kit V3 in the Red colorway, with Kailh MX Box Jade switches. The keycaps I have on it right now are Glimy DSA caps. I'm glad I work from home so I can have all the loud clicks I could want. I have a EZ Planck with Kailh Box Brown switches that I bring for travel use with my laptop as well.
Gmmk tkl with kaihl box white - daily driver
Ducky One 2 with cherry browns - work/office
XD75 with gateron green
Ergo ez in bamboo with cherry browns
Keychron C1 with browns (brand new for home office), and a Velocifire with browns (about to be taken to the office once buidling renos are complete and I can move back into my space). I started out with cheap mechanical keyboards, and I'm testing the waters with a nicer setup.
I’ve been rotating between a lily58 (the boardsource.xyz lulu58 case) with Zealio Zilents V2 65g, and a ZSA Moonlander with Durock T1s. Numpad I’ve been super happy with my FFKeebs Púca with SP-Star Dark Magic Girl switches.
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