I’ve been looking for a new mechanical keyboard, but every brand that I’ve checked out has some kind of problem with them that kills it for me.

I’m looking for:

  1. Full size
  2. Pre built
  3. Hot-swappable switches
  4. Compatible with third party switches
  5. Backlit
  6. Offline software

The Keychron V6 Ultra 8K seems like it’s exactly what I want, but their software is some asinine online only webapp. There is no offline app from what I could find. I would take an electron app over reaching out to a server to utilize my offline hardware.

I’ve cheched:

  1. Keychron - online only software
  2. Ducky - online only software, not compatible with third party switches
  3. Cherry - Not hot swappable
  4. Topre - Not hot swappable
  5. Chilkey - No full size boards
  6. Wooting - Not compatible with third party switches

I think there’s some others I’ve checked, but there’s too many to list/remember.

Does anyone have input or suggestions? This is the first time I’ve really tried looking through all of the options. Before I just went to Logitech or Corsair and called it a day. At this point, I feel like I’m just gonna stick with a membrane keyboard.

  • orb360@lemmy.ca
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    27 days ago

    Kinesis freestyle edge gaming board. I use the tko, but the freestyle is full size, but split. You can push them together though.

    The keyboard configuration is done by putting the KB into USB drive mode and using their offline software to edit config files on the board.