[throwanem]

The noise is from bottoming out. Put spacers on the keycap stems, and it stops being a problem, no matter what kind of switch you use.

This is easy to do and only a little time-consuming. It's easier and faster when you take a cheap Bic pen, pull out the tip and ink tube, and use the body tube to press the spacers down on the stems - it's just the right diameter, and makes the job much faster.

The spacers are cheap, too, being simple silicone rubber O-rings, and as an extra benefit, the rubber eats up a lot of the bottoming-out force that'd otherwise be transmitted up the key into your fingers, which means you type more comfortably as well as more quietly.

[cr0sh]

> The noise is from bottoming out.

Not with my Model M!

/buckling springs ftw...

[throwanem]

I remember my Model Ms with fond nostalgia. I have no desire whatsoever to give up my MX Blues and return to them.

[abritinthebay]

Or people could just type with less force?

I'm not sure where the cultural norm of beating up a keyboard comes from but it's a very inefficient way to type.

[throwanem]

Beats me, but if it comes down to a choice between reengineering people's behavior or reengineering their tools so they can do the same thing they've always done but not get such a poor result, I know which one I've seen to work and which one I haven't.