[anton_gogolev]

Two devs from my current company got themselves Razer keyboards, which look very much like Model M keyboard, albeit it's all-black.

If it were not for video surveillance, I would've already covered them in construction-foamed them shut. They are obnoxiously loud.

[mcguire]

If your coworkers' typing is too distracting, your work environment is probably a bigger problem than the keyboards.

I used to work in a semi-open office with cubicles with people using protein shake mixers and a goddamn espresso machine. The building piped in white noise because it wasn't annoying enough already.

Then I realized I could just leave.

[jordigh]

I use a Das Keyboard, which I think is probably similar. I actually felt bad for a while and asked all of my coworkers if it was too loud and I should use a different keyboard. They all insisted that the noise doesn't bother them. Now I just type with abandon.

It's a lovely keyboard. It feels like silk under my fingers. Lovely, clicky, noisy silk. It was actually left in the company by a former employee, and I nabbed it at once.

[cwilkes]

Usually if you have to ask "is this too X?" It is and you know it internally.

They are being socially polite. See if their productivity dropped, they are out of the office more, they exclude you from events, or if they quit.

[jordigh]

I don't see them doing any of those things.

Also, I just realised my keyboard isn't quite as noisy as a model M. I don't think it has quite the same spring mechanism. It's clicky, but apparently tolerable.

[anton_gogolev]

Oh, this too. Noisy as hell. Or am I overly sensitive to sudden bursts of clickety-clack?

Personally, I use Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop[0]. Very comfortable, silent, ergonomic and all that.

[0]: https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/ru-ru/products/keyboar...