Mechanical switches are essential for PC gaming. Without them you may as well be playing on a console.
Mechanical switches are essential for PC gaming. Without them you may as well be playing on a console.
Mechanical switches are essential for PC gaming. Without them you may as well be playing on a console.
linear switches do make a noticeable difference when playing action games
but for league of legends and starcraft you can use any keyboard you want
That's not true, and it's painfully obvious you are advertising too.
It's painfully obvious you're coping.
lmao
buy an ad
>buy an ad
I must CONSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
>PC GAMING IS COOMSUMERISM!!!!!
lmao look at this cope holy frick
A mechanical keyboard is supposed to last you decades
You're just insecure and refuse to actually use higher quality components in your build. It's like those people who said an RTX 3060 is enough.
what joy do you get out of trolling the same 3-4 schizos bro?
it's like beating your dog. how pathetic that this is your only source of dopamine
>comes into a thread for something he doesn't like
>"Why are you like this bro why are you so mad"
Disingenuous post.
I use QMK directly. VIA is fine for most people.
No, that shit is garbage in spreadsheets and file managers.
I think red dragon has some keyboards with dedicate macro keys.
I would just buy a macropad at that point though. Keep it to the left of your keyboard.
Unicomp?
>red dragon
heard those are a pain in the ass to hot swap despite them saying you can hot swap, is that true?
No clue, I never owned one that had hot swap.
It seems to depend a lot on the switch too, I've had some switches that are nearly impossible to get out of my current keyboard but others that don't stick in well enough.
older Redragon boards that adopted hotswap use outemu hotswap sockets which are intended for use with outemu switches which have a thinner switch leg for no particularly good reason
no idea on if outemu's changed it since then
Nah, Outemu still functions like this unfortunately.
Thank frick akko's compatible with the outemu sockets at least
not an argument
Is nuGanker really so moronic they think people shill mechanical keyboards
of ALL things. that's like calling someone a shill for saying your bedsheets should be egyptian cotton.
there's more than just cherry switches now, old man
Only if you're ready to go full moron on the cost of your keyboard. I would never wish keyboard autism on someone, even my worst enemy. It's a rabbit hole with no end.
Cherry is the best though, the rest are just cheap trash
Did you time warp from 2010?
hes right
I bought mine when their patent hasn't expired. Now there's like over 20 of them or something
>Outemu switches
You could've used Gateron instead
did you know boba u4ts are an outemu switch?
is that some shitty chinese knock off brand? No TY I'll take my superior german engineered master race switches
>Buy mechanical keyboard
>Haven't cleaned it ever since i bought it
>only use keycap puller to clean any keys i end up cooming on
Should i get a different keyboard?
Why are you cooming on your keybaord you caveman.
I'm using a wireless logitech keyboard with chiclet keys.
I'm sorry for your loss
I have two mechanical keyboards, I just don't want to use them.
how much do you get paid to advertise on a mongolian basketweeving forum, jeet-kun?
What am I advertising? I'm telling you something is objectively superior. Is it "advertising" if I told you that a gaming PC is objectively better use of your money than a console?
To your twisted, mentally ill mind maybe.
What does that change about my post?
What's offensive is how obvious it is.
unironically same. the keys are so quiet, and i love it. theres no need to be loud. a press is a press. "mechanical keyboards" are a straight scam.
k800 ftw. mechanical shills btfo.
I'm going to buy a wooting. What should I expect?
A linear board with a janky analog stick mapped to WASD. The novelty wears off quick. Don't actually recommend it unless you're a "power user" that already does tap-dancing shit in QMK because that's the kind of keyboardist hall effect switches are actually built for.
Linear switches suck fricking ass unless they're a "medium weight" like a Cherry black, or more accurately and much more smoothly, a Gateron black or Gateron yellow
MX blues and their clones suck fricking ass as clickies. Get Kailh box white if you want a lighter clicky and a Kailh box jade or box navy if you want a very heavy clicky. You're gonna get a tactile event no matter what because it's a fricking click switch, so don't worry about it being heavy enough to feel good. I haven't tried those Clickiez switches but I hear they're good (but moron expensive).
Get Boba U4T switches if you want tactiles. Get MMD Princess tactiles if you're a poorgay or you can't find Bobas where you live. MX browns and all derivatives are brown for a reason (they're shit).
Get KBDIY SA keycaps or Keychron KSA keycaps. If Drop is running a BOGO sale or a sale in general, get one of the PBT MT3 sets. If you like shorter keycaps, stick with the KBDIY or get Akko ASA keycaps. Cherry and OEM profile keycaps are horseshit. Uniform profiles like DSA are also horseshit.
Get whatever chinkshit mechanical keyboard you can find, it literally does not matter at this point. GET IT WITH HOTSWAP. Get a more expensive one if you like the look of it (I like the 8bitdo one but I can't justify buying a TKL, I hate the layout) or you absolutely must have a metal board. If you absolutely must have a metal body keyboard, get either a Keychron Q or Q Max board or get a Monsgeek board.
Wooting hall effect switches are a meme, don't get suckered in.
Linears are the best switches if they have the right weight and good plastic (such as POM) for the rails.
What am I advertising? What product? What brand? Give some examples or you're just seething that people enjoy things you can't even comprehend.
They're bots.
Don't bother interacting with them.
samegay
For tactiles I'm a happy camper on Durock T1's, but I do way more coding than gaming anyway, Ganker would b***h and moan that they're too heavy instead.
Pajeet shills are too pathetic.
I don't understand how anyone uses linear in ordinary use cases
They're silky smooth. Tactile feel like broken linears, and clicky is garbage.
this won't be removed, making it a valid meta thread.
so can we take a moment to discuss what items from the drop-down should they remove or revise, as jeannies clearly don't enforce them anymore?
>Spamming/flooding
Boy do I love watching 2/3 copies of the same thread at all times, being remade the moment they drop off the board. Palworld shilling/bashing, why are you unprepared, yuzu lawsuit, how did they do it etc.
>Advertising/begging
Should remove the "advertising" part as it is clearly not enforced.
>Flagrant fanboy thread.
Should add "non Nintendo"
>Extremely low quality
They love frogposting.
any ideas?
Pretty much any thread the moment it becomes into /misc/shit
>it becomes into /misc/shit
*it becomes /misc/shit
i need to fricking sleep
That would fall under off-topic, which is enforced. It is enforced arbitrarily to get rid of posts they don't like, but that's a different can of worms.
>advertising is anything I don't personally buy but other people discuss
have a nice day moron. You're probably the same homosexual who was seething at the harmony thread.
mechanical or not I dont give a frick, QMK on the other hand is essential
I use cherry blues, don't like them. Ass for gaming and too loud when being productive.
I would like to try a linear, no click, not having to press too far down type of mechanical keyboard.
>mechanical switches
yikes lmao. if you dont have a wooting or apex pro in 2024 you are not a serious gamer
I still use my Romer G that has the caps popping off from time to time, roast me
blech, drop the logitech. get a hotswap keyboard. live in the present
It's basically free at the moment because I already own it
I am also still on my 1080
It does feel better ergonomically. I only started using them for work though.
>pain after using membrane keyboard for only an hour
>can codemonkey with no pain for the whole day with mechanical keyboard
do you guys wanna see all my custom keyboards i have 12
let's start with this one
Where did the number row go?
my fav one
it's under a layer don't worry you'll understand when you're older
>not ortho
shame
just for you
Close but they forgot the numrow.
>just use layers
IJKL are where the cusor keys go when you press on the left spacebar, so that won't work for numbers.
that's fine there's so many different kinds of keyboards something for everyone
>IJKL
moron moment, just use HJKL like a normal person
Looks nice, but I like to use my numpad for macros, so the lack of one is a deal breaker
I use mostly linears tbh
Don't worry bro I got you covered. It's even got the stealth office look with a retro color scheme.
Even FPS games?
I don't play FPS games.
I already have the best keyboard though
>he doesn't use optical switches
The year is 2024
>"gaming" keyboards
That's like buying "gaming" headphones.
this one is made of plastic
neat
they all are
this one is an oval
why not use a proper gamepad instead of office equipment?
keyboard homosexuals are the most moronic breed of hipsters
I use buckling springs for my keyboard because I use my keyboard for typing.
And I play my games with a fightstick.
I'm using a scissor laptop like keyboard, it was inexpensive and I type faster on it than the ones with tall buttons.
I noticed this when I switched from my Model M to a modern keyboard. I went from 80WPM to 90WPM easily with a top end of 100WPM.
It has to be less key travel.
Seems like writers adore them as well, they're just more comfortable to type on for very long periods of time.
I use meme switches. They're better than standard reds in my opinion.
What switches are those? They make me want to have a nep themed keeb.
Sounds like you need to use topre.
akko x ttc demon switches
Every mechanical keyboard I've used is utter shit.
Back to my rubber mat. It hasn't double keyed yet.
There are not many games where you genuinely NEED a mechanical keyboard. Binding of isaac is the only pne that comes to mind.
you can spot every single homosexual zoomer in this thread, real man have a numpad to play old games
What's stopping you from have a mechanical keyboard with a numpad?
Some of them even have two numpads.
I regret getting a keyboard with red switches. The keys so fricking sensitive that I might use my old shitty brown switch keyboard thats missing 5 keys.
Are there any doubleshot keycaps that don't feel like cheap fricking shit?
I'm still using an old fricking sublimated keycap set because both doubleshot sets I've tried have felt like such utter crap to me.
My caps feel fine idk.
Why aren't there more keyboards like this?
Gives you the benefit of TKL without having to give up a numpad.
Probably because fourkeyless is the lowest I'm willing to go. Function keys are even more important than the numpad.
this layout is pretty nice but generally southpaw is a weird transition
because it's difficult to get used to the numpad and i don't like it. Just get a 96%/1800 layout.
wait a fricking second I'm not great with japanese but this keyboard is like half katakana, partially kanji and portions of kanji and then some characters I've never fricking seen, is this even useful or just for style?
japanese keyboards are not like that at all, its all weeb poser shit
Why do trannies make keyboards part of their personality?
because it has 41 keys
Using chink membrane boards isn't a replacement for a personality
I went to MicroCenter and they had Keychron V1 on display. Apparently they're a reputable brand but what's Ganker's thoughts on them and I guess the keyboard itself?
I like their switches the most out of everything I've tried in the store
all done goodnight
>Old keyboard finally stops working
>Can't find a keyboard with the 6 macro keys AND the switches I want anywhere
>Have to settle for one without macro keys
>Keep reflexively going to press those keys during my workflow
I miss them way more than I thought I would. What does everyone else use for macros and such they need to run very frequently?
Layers with macros on them. Get a keyboard that runs VIA
>VIA
holy homosexual, use QMK itself
If someone doesn't even know what VIA is then they aren't ready to use QMK.
That's like saying "Install Gentoo" but unironically.
yep you are a moronic homosexual
Why the frick would I flash my firmware every single time when I can have one firmware flash and then use a GUI editor with most of the same programming power behind it?
> with most of the same programming power behind it
kek lol lmao even
I think I can already assign anything to any key since it's a Corsair keyboard; I was thinking more about which keys to use instead of those six macro keys.
I use membrane scissor. Cope and seethe
i actually like playing arcade games on loud, clicky switches.
>nobody makes metal spring switches like the model M anymore
UNICOMP m8, they're the legal holders of the license to make those keyboards
https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/NEW_M
note that it's still technically a membrane keyboard at heart so you may run into rollover issues playing shit
if you have an old model M from the IBM days laying around you can also request parts or keycaps from them to repair one
>Black person making a moronic Ganker general on Ganker
amazing
I use blues or browns, but I type a metric frickload.
Use blacks for typing
I don't like blacks.
Mechanical keyboards are fidget spinners to sooth autism. Nothing more.
And now we all have to listen to you clacking away just because your mom couldn't go 9 months without a drink? We live in a society.
My keyboard is quieter than yours will ever be.
I bought a Wooting keyboard that has lekker switches, whatever the frick that means. I used red switches before.
i hate these cuz i just want to eat the switches and keycaps
I use a 12 dollar Dell keyboard
>gateron yellows
25-35 dollar mechanical keyboard are fine
they are only "essential" if the game youre playing has you doing strenuous and repetitive actions. the actuation force on mechanical keyboards can save your pinky and thumb joints in games with lots of sprinting and jumping with Shift and Spacebar.
>play alot of FPS
>always at the top of the scoreboard
>mfw using a K120
lol money wasters
It's amusing to look at the speed with which gaming had reached the stage of interest decadence that we are arguing about this. It took literature thousands of years to get to the "if your edition of the Iliad is a cheap paperback you don't love literature."
Plato argued that it wasn't a real story or real lecture if it was in a book.
there's a lot of greek philosophy where i read it and i just think they're a complete crank tbh
And yet he wrote so many of them.
I'm still using the dusty ass Compaq keyboard from the 90s.
I have no idea why modern keyboards are so fricking fragile.
you pro skub gays are the worst kind of posers
why are they essential? shill me mechboards op
They feel better, are quieter, more customizable, and are fully programmable. Why wouldn't you use them? It's like asking to be shilled about PC gaming.
If you don't see the benefits that's a (You) problem.
>They feel better
that subjective but i'll take your word for it
>are quieter
im intrigued. are they really? not the clicky switches obviously but say some quiet switch vs average membrane board
>are fully programmable
you mean macros and things like that? i have AHK for that
i don't really see how any of those things are GAMING releated. i'd sooner get a mechboard for work than gaming
You need linear switches, preferrably lubed. But yes, you can make very very silent keyboards with the right switches.
No I mean you literally program the keyboard.
>No I mean you literally program the keyboard.
what the frick does that even mean? what are the benefits? why would i want to do that?
I happen to use blues because I like the feeling while writing code and typing ranty emails to my homosexual coworkers, what does it say about my gaymen? I play shit like picrel
It's hard to double tap on clicky switches. Maybe even impossible on some.
I think it's fake characters.
worked fine in the little Dotka I played before I quit but I may just be casul
It's not japanese, that's the reason. What you see here is the chinese version of "Hiragana/Katakana" they invented because they looked at PCs and went "oh frick, uuh"
Basically it's watered down Hanzi (chink Kanji) they use to represent tones with the least strokes they could come up with.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_input_method
they come in different flavours.
woah, thank you. Did not expect to learn something.
without sounding like a coffee enthusiast or something equally pointless, what makes these stupid color coded caps better than just a regular old keyboard?
I want a new keyboard thats a little quieter, but I will not pay as much for caps, as I would for a whole mechanical keyboard, if there is only a minor benefit to it.
There's no actual benefit.
I bought a Razer Deathstalker V2 with red switched few days ago
The keys were too sensible it was annoying
Returned it and I'll keep using my Mx keys
.
Also talking about switches, are there good silent switches? Bought some Outemu silent Lime and Peach for my Haute42 pad but they don't feel as smooth at the stock one (leobog v4) but I like how silent they are
My Cherry MX switch keyboard feels like shit to type on compared to my new one that uses Akkos. Like as bad as my old membrane G15 keyboard from 2007.
I use a controller like any sane person, keyboards are for work
A friend of mine dropships shit like this and other "gameing keyboard" junk he buys for pennies in China and he's making a small fortune with it. Gamers are a very gullible demographic. Lootboxes, gacha shit, monthly subscriptions and these gaming accessories.
I swear the day gamers wisen up the global economy collapses.
You can just buy a mechanical keyboard on Amazon for $30. People on Ganker gloat about paying $15 for a chinkboard that cost $1 to produce.
nta but i don't get the point you are trying to make
if the same keyboard costs $30 on amazon then yeah its better to buy it for $15 from chinkland
I'm saying you're gullible for buying a $1 keyboard marked up to $15 rather than a $15 keyboard marked up to $30.
You're saving $15 to use a significantly worse keyboard that only exists to get chinks maximum profit margins. You don't even understand how you're being scammed rn.
if its not the same keyboard then yeah obviously
but there are chink things to be found on amazon that you can buy on aliexpress for a fraction of the price
I never bothered with mechanical keyboards but my brother bought me pic for my b-day. It feels nice but is loud as frick.
>CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK
Sorry I'm more of a silent chiclet chad
Why would you use chiclets which are loud when you could have a silent linear mechanical?
Been sniffing this plastic cocaine recently and got into contactless just a while ago. I blame (You) guys for it.
Also can anyone give their thoughts on the HHKB? Sounds ridiculously expensive for something that takes time for people to like.
Also also, anyone recommend some high profile keycaps?
HHKB uses topre switches, which are often considered to be the best switches ever created.
They're rubber dome
Haven’t gotten around to trying topre yet. I’ve seen the typing demos already but idk, they sound rather... mushy? I guess? They are part-way actuated so it is nice.
>You don’t want high profile caps
Interesting. Got some cheap ABS SA prof a few weeks ago, thought they were nice enough. Though I do love the looks of the space cadet
Topre is what all the autists actually use, all the mechanical shit is a scam.
It turns out that rubber domes are just objectively the best way to type. It's buckling spring without the noise.
Have any good ones you can recommend?
Rubber domes are fine but as long as they don’t feel mushy. Part-way actuation is a must, not one those cheap membrane ones
All EC boards have settable actuation distances, because there's no physical contact being made, just a spring altering its capacitance due to deformation.
Personally I use an old Niz board, because it has a superior bottom row layout (4 keys either side of space). The chinks seem to be very slowly starting to pump out EC kits, but none of them look appealing due to shit layouts. Domes can be swapped out to be as mushy or as tactile as you want.
HHKB is a gimmick board due to the shit layout, but it has topre which are miles better than mechanoslop.
You don't want high profile keycaps. Honestly, most profiles look cool but are dogshit to actually use.
Guys what the frick is a hall effect switch keyboard
magnets
thats all i know
No moving parts, impossible to break assuming you don't destroy your keycaps
They are probably even spill resistant.
I bought one of these moronic keyboards and some keys just suddenly stop working then come back after a while.
Even keys I barely use.
It just needs cleaning?
what's the quietest mechanical keyboard?
I've seen mechanical keyboards with regular keys that just look normal but make the funny sound when pressed.
And others whose keys seem to be suspended and do a mouse clicky sound when pressed.
Is there any difference? Which one is better?
the louder your keyboard is the better you are at the game
nothing to do with tactile vs. linear and actuation forces
Silent tactiles can kinda sound like a mouse click. Just as quiet too.
then why do i keep getting top scores with a $15 membrane keyboard
bad tools are overcome by skill, but they're still bad tools
that's why
>shilling mechanical keyboards
you might just as well post about your hrt gaygit.
My keyboard has cherry mx red switches, it doesn't take much force to push the buttons down which I like because spamming abilities can be rough on the hands over time. I'm fine with this board I've been using for probably 8 years now, plus it has a number pad so when I'm whaling in the latest gacha I can type my credit card info super quick.
Wish a proper ANSI PT-PT keyboard layout existed. Even the rare ones that exist, including laptops, are missing at least one button, usually an accent. I really want the big shit button.