| From: Evan Leibovitch via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | The emergence of high-end gaming on PCs has led to a quest for | keyboards that are super-responsive and comfortable for long periods.
Yeah. That seems like the best place to look. Beware: I've found their goals are not completely aligned with mine. Here are some. One feature that I don't care about is rainbow coloured lights for the keys. Benign, but you are paying for this. On mine (a Razer Blackwidow Ultimate -- love the names), I've got a green light per key, solidly on unless I install a daemon to change that. Another is "tenkeyless" which means "without numeric keypad". I use the numeric keypad and don't want to lose it. Another is low-latency: I've never noticed keyboard latency. Another is: ugly seems to be valued. All support n-key rollover, for large n. This requires sending multiple USB packets per keystroke. This in turn confuses the firmware on a couple of our machines: if we wish to adjust firmware settings, we have to plug in a different keyboard. As you can imagine, that took some effort to figure out. There are many web pages that describe the colours of switches. <https://geargaminghub.com/cherry-mx-switches/> My wife likes "blue" keys (noisy and tactile). I like "brown" keys (less noisy but tactile). If you care a lot, you may care about the company that produced the switches. I haven't bothered to sudy this aspect. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk