My keyboard is a 1990s Dell AT-101. I think the switches are Alps Black, they're tactile but not clicky
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I build custom kits for myself to relieve RSI. I'm running a PLANK with Gateron browns at my office, and a tented Iris with Zilent tactile switches.
RSI?
Repeated strain injury. Tendinitis from typing too much.
I bought the cheapest brown-switch keyboard off amazon i could find and it's pretty sweet.
I still like a laptop chicklet-style keyboard, or an older laptop-style keyboard, but it's nice to not have to press the keys down fully for typing.
Yeah, I get that.
Buy shit
Depends.
Voyager from ZSA, which is a wonderful board and sold me on low profile, but I do miss the tactility of the cherry switches on my last board. Waiting on lowprokb's silent tactile chocs so I can have my actual perfect typing experience, hopefully!
Cool beans.
I had a Logitech G710+ and now have a Corsair K68, both Cherry MX Blue for that very nice loud, hard clickiness reminiscent of the old IBM Model M keyboards from the late 1980s.
The only issue that exists is Corsair's iCUE software is 