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The key to actually benefitting from a mechanical keyboard hobby is to move past the fancy expensive clickety clack and get into ergo mechanical keyboards. Still costs way too much money but now my thumbs have reached their full potential and my wrists no longer hate me :)
I really tried to like my various ergoboards, but I never did. I sent them off to better and more appreciated homes now.
i feel like 99% of ergonomic keyboards are just too fancy, all you should really need is two rectangles with a more ortholinear layout…
Like this
What are your main boards? I’m using my battle worn Kinesis Advantage from 2002 for typing and coding, and a Keychron V1 Max for gaming.
I had the ZSA Moonlander and loved it. I now have a Charybdis from BastardKB and I love it even more.
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My guess: They’re very nice, some people think (myself included). But they’re also a very expensive hobby, and if you really like them, it can be difficult to go back.
For many, mechanical keyboards are a massive upgrade they have trouble going back from, due to the precision and tactile feedback being much better than regular membrane keys.
On the other hand, cheap mechanical keyboards can easily be 3 or 4 times as expensive as a basic keyboard, and if you’re the type to want different setups you can quickly end up spending hundreds on boards, switches, and caps.
That’s accurate. The hobby can get expensive.
