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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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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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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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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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Nick Taylor • Edited

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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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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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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