[atoav]

I have a keyboard with silent black MX switches and I never felt any need for clickyness.

The cool thing about these linear switches (Black, Red, Silver, Grey) is that you can type extremely silent if you like to, by just hovering the keys or you can type loudly by bottoming them out (if somebody was wrong on the internet or so).

When I type silently it is less loud than my lenovo notebook keyboard.

For me the click was never really necessary — the resistance of the spring is already enough. Maybe it is because I play guitar, bass and piano.

[the_pwner224]

> I have a keyboard with silent black MX switches and I never felt any need for clickyness.

I had a red keyboard and I never felt that it was necessary. But then I got a blue and I would never go back. Just because the sound isn't necessary or helpful doesn't mean it's pleasing to have it.

Like a big moon roof in a car, if you've never had one you may not really see the point, but once you get one the feeling of having light coming in from overhead is something that you quickly begin to enjoy.

You may want to try this program - even though I have blues I keep it enabled when I use headphones or when I am using the laptop keyboard: https://github.com/zevv/bucklespring

[thrwaway442]

I'm having a little trouble following. Do I have this right:

- blues are louder than reds

- You had a red keyboard and you didn't think you needed the noise

- but then you got the blue which was much louder and you enjoyed this

If that's what you mean, what did you mean by this:

>Just because the sound isn't necessary or helpful doesn't mean it's pleasing to have it.

do you mean "just because it isn't necessary doesn't mean it's NOT pleasing to have it" (in fact for you it IS pleasing to have it - you enjoy the noise?)

let me know if I am reading your comment right. it sounds like you very much enjoy hearing loud clicks, to the point of installing a program to emulate them.

[atoav]

I know a lot of people who dislike the reds, they give the least feedback of all the cherry MX switches (be it force feedback or acoustic feedback). They are basically very light linear switches.

They are however popular in gaming, because the linearity of the force curve allows for fast repeat rates. In fact they made a silver variant, which is basically a red switch with a shorter travel way.

[the_pwner224]

Yes, I missed the 'not'. I do enjoy hearing the keyboard.

[lagadu]

You can get the tactile feedback from the keyboard minus the sound, it's what the brown switches do :)

[thrwaway442]

thank you - this is very useful information!