phigan wrote to Nightfox <=-
Re: Hardware keyboard upgrades
By: Nightfox to Mortar on Thu Apr 16 2026 02:29 pm
That said, I've always heard good things about mechanical keyboards. I'm ju not sure I feel like I can justify the extra expense right now. Also I'd li to find one that's quiet, as I don't really like loud keyboards.
I'm thinking the days of the cheap clones for $20 (or less) are long
gone, but I still see some come down to around $35 every once in a
while. I would highly recommend picking one up at that price.
Personally, I like the smooth red switches, but even a clicky blue
switch one is more pleasant than a membrane keyb.
I played with a colleague's keyboard at work - the fact he had it in an
open office was a good sign. He mentioned that he bought brown
switches, which I'd heard were much quieter than the other switches.
Can Confirm - it was unintrusive in an open office.
The one thing holding me back, besides cost, is needing to connect two
devices to one keyboard. I use one Logitech keyboard and mouse in my home
office, and connect my monitor to my work laptop and home desktop. each
system has a logitech unifying receiver. To switch, I switch the
monitor, keyboard and mouse between the systems.
The logitech MX Master keyboard isn't mechanical, but it's quiet and
has nice feedback for a laptop-like keyboard. It feels more like an old
Thinkpad keyboard.
Some of the cheap keyboards can do Bluetooth and use a
single-PC dongle, which would work. And Logitech makes a mechanical
keyboard. Considering that Logitech has discontinued the unifying
receiver and now uses an incompatible receiver technlology (apparently,
a new protocol encrypting the data between the keyboard and dongle was
a DOD requirement) which means when I replace something I'd either need
to have 2 dongles in each system or buy a keyboard, desk mouse and
travel mouse. :(
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