Not All Linears Are The Same!
Figure 1: Not even all of these (mostly) KTT-made linears are the same! After all of my years of collecting, reviewing, and obsessing over switches, I can say with certainty that linear switches are the most misunderstood of all of the switch types. No, I’m not talking about mechanically either, as all of the claims of them “just going straight up and down” are somewhat kind of true. (Not too much though, don’t get that excited.) The part that is often misunderstood, though, is usually in what is being implied when people say that these switches just go straight up and down – “All linears might as well be the same.” If the title of this article didn’t make that obvious enough to you, I find that sort of idea to be completely and utterly wrong. The people who make these implications wouldn’t say that a Cherry MX Black is the same as a Novelkeys Cream switch? They also certainly wouldn’t ever claim that every Gateron-made linear is the same as every fancy TTC one out there...
May 29, 2024
- Go to the web configurator page in your browser (Firefox or Chrome)
- Press F12 to open devtools, go to the "Network" tab there
- Change something in your keyboard configuration and press "Save"
- Notice in the network tab of the devtool panel that your browser makes request to the server. You can see your keyboard configuration in JSON format being sent to a server.
- Right click on this request and go to "Copy -> Copy as cURL"
- Paste it to some text editor and search for "KC_ESC" code, replace it with "KC_GESC"
- Copy the new curl command from the text editor, paste to your terminal (curl command should be installed), and execute it
- This will save your keyboard configuration with ESC keycode swapped. Just refresh the page in your browser and you should see the code like in the configuration I posted earlier.
Hope this helps, let me know if you will be wondering about something more :)