[GTALUG] Was Re: Heads up: Ubuntu 21.10 kills your desktop icons now - keyboards

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Evan Leibovitch via talk <talk at 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.