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
This one's rather a fun build/mod since it's an OEM board, a Leopold FC980M PD with Novelkey's kailh pro purple and burgundy switches swapped in. Also changed the LEDs from blue to yellow.
Keycaps are from the SA Camping! custom keyset.
Just plain water in the mug.
EDIT: The keyboard pictured isn't my possession, it belongs to a client of mine requesting that I swap out all of the stock cherry mx switches he doesn't wants.