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What Keyboard Do You Use?

I was writing a post earlier tonight about my new keyboard which I'm really enjoying.

What are you typing on? Do you like it? Share your keyboard and what you like about it.

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Ali Navidi

I'm using razer blackwidow v3 pro, its wireless and comfortable.

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

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Tina Huynh

At the moment I have the Logitech G613 but have always had my eyes on the Keychron keyboards for how compact it looks and feels.

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Nick Taylor • Edited

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Thanks for sharing!

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Tomasz Frankowski

I was using Logitech MX keys before and got myself Keychron K2 this week, and I have to say that even throuhg the clicking sound is very nice, the customizability here is a joke. There's no way to reprogram the fn or the screenshot button and that's really awkward as many accents in languages are written using the right option key that this keyboard is missing.

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Nick Taylor • Edited

Maybe there is something you can do to customize it like Karabiner-Elements?

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Tina Huynh

Interesting I've never heard of Karabiner :o is there a linux version?

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Tomasz Frankowski

The karabiner works fine for all of the keys, except of 2- screenshot and fn which most probably is hardcoded into the keyboard

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Tina Huynh

Oh really? What keyboard would you recommend instead of the keychron keyboards?

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Tomasz Frankowski

I'm going back to Logitech MX keys. I knew it was good when buying it, but I underappreciated how good!

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Patrick Wendo

The Keychron is also what I want to move to. Not even sure which, but I just know it's keychron

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Tina Huynh

Yeah haha I hear that a lot

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ssherlock • Edited

I had the first Keyhron keyboard, the K1 and it was awful. US layout (I'm in the UK), noisy keys and dodgy bluetooth. I did love the lights and how compact it was though (and soon got used to switching between uk and us layout so I could use the £ key when needed).
It didn't last long though as the keys really weren't that great.
All that said they have moved on a lot with many models since the K1. So if you live somewhere you're not going to get hammered by import tax then they may be worth a shot.

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Tina Huynh

Interesting points....thanks for sharing

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Andrew Baisden

Also been looking at Keychron keyboards for a while.

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Al

I just recently got Keychron K2 - love every second of working on it

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Alex Lohr

I'm using a Logitech MX keys keyboard, after they discontinued the K310 series. It is rather silent and has a nice smooth feedback, plus the interesting ability to work with multiple devices.

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Nick Taylor

Thanks for sharing!

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Luiz Ferreira

I'm using a Keychron K8 and I love it!
Mechanicals, comfortable and have background LED's.

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Nick Taylor

Awesome!

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afullsnack

I'm using the stock Mac Book Pro 13" (2014) Keyboard 😅

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Leon Guillaume

I use a Planck with Gateron Brown and I also sometime switch onto my Preonic with Gateron Yellow !

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Ivan Jeremic • Edited

Corsair K95 Platinum undestructable keyboard!

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Nick Taylor • Edited

Nice!

Two PureWriter Keyboards; one white and one black with their coloured backlighting on

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Kolja

Yes, and relatively quiet.

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Alin Pisica

Since last week I moved to a Logitech G915. Yes, it's worth it.

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

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Jenuel Oras Ganawed

when I started to know about mechanical keyboards, I was curius why people liking it. So, I bought a Roral Kludge 84. I am using windows 10. After connecting it to my laptop, all the fn shortcut works properly on my system.

The keyboard is nise too, I like typing on it. I saw youtubers mod their keyboard, but I think I dont need to mod mine. It works and sounds just fine.

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Jenuel Oras Ganawed

Royal Kludge 84 hehe

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JoelBonetR 🥇

I wrote a post about that in the best keyboard I had for coding 😁

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Nick Taylor

Awesome and thanks for sharing!

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Just FYI, you can embed your dev.to posts using this syntax {% embed https://dev.to/joelbonetr/the-best-keyboard-i-ever-had-for-coding-l3m %}

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JoelBonetR 🥇

TY! didn't know that, much appreciated! 😁

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Michael Tharrington

And I shared a comment on said post about my keyboard, haha!

Well, I don't think mine is necessarily the most ergonomical or best keyboard by any means, but I have one of these from Lofree + the mouse:

lofree keyboard and mouse

It is pretty dang stylish and I like the clickiness of the keys. But, after about 3 years, mine is starting to break down, so I might be in the market for a replacement soon. Gonna have to consider this Logitech that you're talking about!

Well, since posting about my keyboard (which I noted was kinda on it's way out), I ended up buying a new Lofree keyboard.

I found a used one on Mercari for $35 so I'm kinda taking my chances... hopefully it's in good shape and none of the keys are wonky!

But yeah, it looks a lot like my other one with just a few color changes. Still got the teal in there though so it'll match my mouse!

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JoelBonetR 🥇

hahahah plot twist!

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Or Yaacov

Lenovo Legion K500, a bit too soft, but to be honest I have no complains

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Jeremy Friesen • Edited

I use ErgoDox EZ at my desk. It had a learning curve and I've configured it so it's mentally close my laptop keyboard.

ErgoDox EZ: An Incredible Mechanical Ergonomic Keyboard

An open-source keyboard for serious developers, gamers, and people who care deeply about their craft.

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Andrés Fernando Martinez

I use a Logitech K835 TKL with clicky switches, really noisy and my wife hate it, so its a plus. Great for typing i recommend it.