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by shk1338 2206 days ago
By the way, for anyone interested in the "real" keyboards – welcome to the r/MechanicalKeyboards and QMK firmware, you will not want to buy Cooler Master after getting familiar with these resources.
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Might also want to checkout r/Gatekeeping ;)
I have a bunch of keyboards. My daily driver is a shitty Alps clone switch boardswith modified click leaves to provide better tactility. I understand going down the rabbit hole of building your own.

However: I want tactility, and with regards to tactility very few switches actually beat good rubber domes. Not rubber domes as in topre, just generally. The switches that do provide tactility (I would say that the matias switches are a good example) have been less reliable than a good rubber dome for a lot more money(at least outside matias' own keyboards).

Also, with a lot of these non-cherry switches I have found binding issues, and as we all know binding is the keyboard antichrist.

The only solution to getting a properly tactile switch I have found to be to buy increasingly expensive switches and build your own board, which I have no interest in whatsoever, or just buying a buckling spring board, where you will get a lovely 2KRO for non-modifier keys (unicomp is updating their process and releasing the "new model m" btw).

After all this, I don't understand the craze for mechanical keyboards. For linear boards there is really no good option, but for typists a good dome board (with slider) will be just as good and cost less than half as much.

I own an MK750. What's wrong with it?
Doesn't look programmable? If it is, they did a terrible job marketing it. Either way they did a terrible job marketing..
Marketing. Just what I look for in a keyboard.
Care to elaborate?
r/MechanicalKeyboards is a sub-reddit dedicated to making custom keyboards, salivating over neat keyboards, and hating on topre.
Wait, "hating on Topre" since when?? https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/grapwq... I thought everyone loved Topre.
Heretics abound.