On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 2:41 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:

| From: Evan Leibovitch via talk <talk@gtalug.org>

|   The emergence of high-end gaming on PCs has led to a quest for
| keyboards that are super-responsive and comfortable for long periods.

Yeah.  That seems like the best place to look.

Beware: I've found their goals are not completely aligned with mine.
Here are some.

One feature that I don't care about is rainbow coloured lights for the
keys.  Benign, but you are paying for this.  On mine (a Razer Blackwidow
Ultimate -- love the names), I've got a green light per key, solidly on
unless I install a daemon to change that.

Another is "tenkeyless" which means "without numeric keypad".  I use
the numeric keypad and don't want to lose it.

Another is low-latency: I've never noticed keyboard latency.

Another is: ugly seems to be valued.

All support n-key rollover, for large n.  This requires sending multiple
USB packets per keystroke.  This in turn confuses the firmware on a couple
of our machines: if we wish to adjust firmware settings, we have to plug
in a different keyboard.  As you can imagine, that took some effort to
figure out.

There are many web pages that describe the colours of switches.
<https://geargaminghub.com/cherry-mx-switches/>

My wife likes "blue" keys (noisy and tactile).
I like "brown" keys (less noisy but tactile).

If you care a lot, you may care about the company that produced the
switches.  I haven't bothered to sudy this aspect.

Interesting comments from all of the responders so far.  

Is anyone using an ergonomic keyboard from this group. 

The old rectangular keyboard makes my hands ache at the 

thought of using only this. I have some cheap keyboards gotten 

with machine purchases - - - my working keyboard for anything 

more than a few keystrokes is an ergonomic version. I'm about 

60 cm across the shoulders so a keyboard that's some 35 cm 

just isn't comfortable. 

I also like my numeric keypad - - - - do a lot of entries on that 

for business use and would like to have it part of the keyboard 

if at all possible. 

I have used the mechanical keys in a very long time - - - think 

I would prefer less noise rather than more but for high quality 

would like give on that! 

Re: gaming - - - - I'm having too fun fun and use far too much time 

on my system without playing any games - - - tend to relax with a 

book (most often a physical copy too).