A brief reflection and look at how far our community has come since joining. I’ve been in the mechanical keyboard hobby for a very long time. It started as a high school student’s search for a keyboard for writing novels back in the 2008-2009 school year. I thought I wanted to be an author and I felt I needed a keyboard that I could sit down to at my desk and just write. After researching, joining forums, and saving money, I made my first purchase in the hobby, a blank black Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional 2. I still own this keyboard and while it is heavily modded now, it remains one of my all-time favorites. My HHKB Pro2 with MitchCapped Accents Many people would have stopped there, but keyboards became a hobby. I enjoyed learning about them, and early on, I enjoyed hunting for them in thrift shops. I would dig through bins at Goodwill and Salvation Army while popping keycaps off with paperclips looking for mechanical switches. I searched for a birthday Model M...
May 7, 2024
Can anyone speak to the case quality of Ducky vs WASD vs Das? If you've used any two, I'd like to hear what you think, I need a new full size :)
I cant comment much about the stock keycaps since I changed them for some PBT ones shortly after buying it but I hear that while there are pretty "meh" ABS plastic they are still better than the ones used by WASD. The lighting in my board was pretty even and after all this time, no led as died on me yet.
To say something negative, I would say that the spot for the micro usb connection is a bit small and can be difficult to find a cable with a connector that fits in there.
Other than that, I think you cant go wrong with a Ducky.
the case may be plastic, but its damn tough and dense
dont buy it with keycaps, and make sure to buy lube because the costar stabilizers will become rough after around a year or two of use, especially if you switch caps often.
Both boards have extremely solid construction, and both came stock with ABS key-caps that I have grown to dislike (which is why I have PBT caps on the Ducky that I use with my desktop). Only reason I use the Ducky over my CODE most days is that I typically prefer browns for everyday use, though greens have their own merits.
Basically, if you plan to use your own caps either brand won't let you down. Though it seems like this drop for the Ducky One RGB has Doubleshot PBT caps already so that may be incentive to go for this if you're leaning towards a Ducky. And as a bonus they aren't using the font that I've been seeing on their past boards and/or Vortex caps, so that's nice.
I would buy from either brand again in a heartbeat. In fact, I already have a Ducky One TKL on the way with two sets of monotone blank key-caps that I am going to get to spread out among my boards!