At home I have a Das Keyboard with Cherry MX browns and they feel great. I think this is the quickest I’ve been able to type on any keyboard.

I type a lot for my new job and no one cares if I bring in my own keyboard but for my coworkers sake, I don’t think I want to bring in browns. I’m a heavy typer and frankly I’m loud on browns.

I searched for quieter keys and found Cherry MX Red Silents (Durgod keyboard) but after typing on it a few days at work, I’m making way more mistakes, I’m typing slower, and my hands are more fatigued. That’s when I learned about linear vs tactile… I think tactile is what I need.

So with that, I’m looking for:

Need:

  • Tactile
  • Light switches (should take much force to activate? idk. Browns are good for me, for reference)
  • Quiet
  • 100% layout

Want:

  • Switches I can put the Draula keycaps on that my friend bought me. I just know they fit fine on Cherry MX Browns and Red Silent.
  • USB-C port. I have a coiled cable I want to use already.

Nice to have:

  • Hot swappable PCB

Open to other info I’m not thinking about.

  • Zachariah@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I’ve got regular red switches, and the bottoming is more than ten times louder than any noise from the switch.

    I got the soft (quiet, but squishy feel) and the hard (not as quiet, but firmer landing) of these: https://www.gloriousgaming.com/products/glorious-mx-o-ring-switch-dampeners both in the “thin” variant (minor reduction in travel). The hard offered me enough noise reduction that it seems to me like it’s as quiet or quieter than a regular keyboard.

    I’ve got the Keychron Q6 Wired keyboard and am very satisfied. I use it for work and gaming. It’s way too heavy to transport frequently. Keychron has lighter models.

    Also:

    1. I don’t care about rgb, but it’s got it, and the software for programming it (VIA) is open source.
    2. The backlight is from the front of the keycaps, and it does nothing helpful with the default set, but I don’t use it much in the dark anyway
    3. I really like the shape of the default keycap set
    4. I’m considering looking for a set that’s similar in shape, but blank tops and shine through letters on the front side
    5. But I wish there was a set of the exact keycaps it came with but shine through letters on the top, and that that’s where the leds were pointed because I’ve gotten used to that on laptops