Mechanical Keyboards

9506 readers

48 users here now

Are you addicted to the clicking sounds of your beautiful and impressive mechanical keyboard?
If so, this community is for you!

Here you can discuss everything about mechanical keyboards (and only mechanical keyboards).

Banner by Jay Zhang on Unsplash

founded 4 years ago

Things you wish you know when starting out. (lemmy.zip)

submitted 3 days ago by alehel@lemmy.zip to c/mechanicalkeyboards@lemmy.ml

21 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I've had a ROG Azoth (don't judge) keyboard for about a year now. Been using it for both programming and gaming, and I really like it, but there are a few issues (software being the obvious one). So I've decided it's time to put together my own keyboard. I started watching some YouTube and yeah.... I'm out of my depth here.

So I was wondering if maybe people could share things they wish they knew when starting out so I don't mess up to badly.

I've already found this switch tester which I figured would give me a general idea of what kind of switches might be for me. Other than that, I'm not really sure how to proceed 😅.

I'm not interesting in doing any soldering.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Lembot_0001@lemm.ee 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

My keyboard has a few modes of backlight. Most of them are crazy shit without any purpose. I can't disable them programmatically as their shitty shitware doesn't work under Linux. So after every reset/turn-on I cyclically run through those blimping abominations of backlight modes.

I miss old IBM or Mitsumi keyboards that were just keyboards.

[–] alehel@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

Oh, that's a good thing to look out for when investigating possible purchases. My Azoth screen goes on at 100% every time I start it, so I have to go through the menu to disable it. Got old real quick.

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

You might like WASD Keyboards. They’re super minimal and chunky. You can even get blank/custom key caps as a factory option.

Edit: Just checked and apparently they are no more 😭 Damn. One of the better ones, too.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nooooo! I Love my code. Feels like it was just yesterday I got it.

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Got mine in 2016 myself and still kicking

My coworkers hate when they end up having to do something on my computer. I wonder why…