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MX Red switches are a crime perpetrated against living beings with hands
Brown is the professional choice.
What's the bold choice for young rebels?
blue is the clicky ones
but real OGs go for buckling spring
At my first programming job there was a super old database admin who had an old model M that he would type on using just his index fingers. Real radio in the cubicle type of guy.
Red or Black if your a G*mer. Blue if you want the loudest clickity clacks and annoy all your neighbors.
But browns are Goldilocks baby bear keys. Clicky without resistance. Audible but not loud. Chunk chunk chunk.
I bought my keyboard with browns almost solely because that was the version on sale, but didn't realise how much I love them until I tried a friend's reds. That little tactile bump really makes a huge difference.
They're so much harder to get a hold of last I checked.
Is that the loud one?
Edit: Oh shit, it's super quiet. It looks mushy as hell!
They're linear, which means there's no tactility on press until you bottom out.
IMO reds aren't actually that mushy compared to MX* browns, they feel smooth more than anything.
*MX brown clones like the Outemus feel better than MX browns in my experience
My keyb kit came with a pack of the new "improved" cherry MX2A reds. They are still so much scratchier than even the badly lubed switches that come with cheap prebuilds these days, and thats after i hand lubed them (i want those 5 hours back)
Tangerines are so much better