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Ask Slashdot: What Kind of Keyboard Do You Use With Your Computer and Why?
An anonymous reader writes: Hello all. I am looking to buy a good mechanical keyboard for my everyday usage — programming and writing. I see some good offers on certain keyboards -- thanks to Black Friday deals. Just this week, Razer launched what looks like a good mechanical keyboard for people who are looking for a budget gear. One of the issues I have come across looking for a good keyboard is how most of them are designed for Windows OS by default. (I know you can customize keys, but.)
Slashdot has run keyboard discussion posts in the past -- the best laptop with best keyboard, greatest keyboard ever made, and quest to find a good keyboard , but I don't see any recent story on this. I was curious to know what kind of keyboard you use and why did you choose the one you have?
Slashdot has run keyboard discussion posts in the past -- the best laptop with best keyboard, greatest keyboard ever made, and quest to find a good keyboard , but I don't see any recent story on this. I was curious to know what kind of keyboard you use and why did you choose the one you have?
I just wish laptop people would stop inventing new stuff just for the sake of it.
... last one I bought (low end) was Lenovo Ideapad 310. They put the shift key AFTER the arrow key up. It's like UI/UX people in web design, just making changes for the sake of it.
Every time I buy a laptop, there's some retarded stuff going on
Check this out:
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Takes quite a while to adapt.
Unicomp buckling spring - if you want a traditional model M made by the same folks who produced the beasts for IBM, go there.
I have one for work and home, and they are tanks. And noisy. But they will have to bury me with mine as they will be unable to pry them from my cold dead hands.
Note - I have one with the integrated trackpoint mouse, but in the end it wasnt really worth the premium, except for those rare times I needed a console KB+M in a pinch and was out of USB ports.
After spending a bunch of money on mechanical keyboards, I finally figured out that I really prefer membrane keyboards for both gaming and typing. I never really enjoyed my mechanicals, but the hype was so strong that mechanical was the way to go that I kept trying, thinking that I just needed to find the right one.
Finally, I was in some store one day and they had a Razer Cynosa Chroma on display and I tried it and decided on the spot to give my mechanicals away to friends and now that Razer is my absolute favorite. Less than half the price of my cheapest mechanical, too.
You are welcome on my lawn.
I find the shaped keyboards to work best with my arthritis. Either the Logitech or Microsoft feels better for long sessions of coding/typing.
My biggest concern is the Logitech Set Point software when I'm working on my Windows machine. I really shouldn't have installed it. The keyboard works fine on my Linux development machine and doesn't require Set Point.
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What keyboard do I use?
Wired.
It's just a dell keyboard that came with the computer. It doesn't have clicky switches, or RGB LEDs, or music navigation buttons, or a volume control, or even the power/sleep/suspend keys. It's just a keyboard.
Why?
Security. Simplicity. Availability. Affordability.
My requirements for a keyboard? It needs to have an ENTER key that is NOT shaped like an "L", and the backslash should be placed just above the ENTER key.
Low expectations.
I expect a keyboard to break the floor when I drop it, not the other way around.
Found the model M user.