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
I'm looking forward to getting a brown switch full-size keyboard, NO LED, ~$100 budget, good build quality, for typing and casual gaming usage.
Now I'm choosing between Ducky One Side PBT (https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_detail&p=2398) and CM MasterKeys L (https://www.amazon.com/Cooler-Master-MasterKeys-Mechanical-Keyboard/dp/B072C516B9/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1504705208&sr=1-2&keywords=cooler+master+MASTERKEYS+L)
Both look good to me... any advice? Or is there another better choice than both?
Thanks in advance!