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I bought this one earlier this year:
Logitech G915 LIGHTSPEED RGB... https:
It’s a little loud but I work from home so it doesn’t bother me. I did have to put a piece of cardboard under the programmable keys on the left hand side because I kept accidentally pressing them.
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I've been using Logitech k740-backlit-illuminated keyboards for years[^] Love them - quiet, minimal travel and force required, makes typing a breeze. I used to get carpal tunnel and used those fancy curved keyboards to fix that, but the Logitech requires such light touch that I can use a "straight" keyboard with no issues.
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YES. The Das 5QS is amazing. It is like butter. It is durable as heck. I beat on my keys.
It is among the best $200 I have spent on my PC.
Also each key has individually programmable RGB lighting. You can write widgets or they have them to monitor CPU/GPU usage, incoming email, github stuff. whatever. So your keyboard can talk back to you with its lights.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I looked at it, and scratched my head on the $200 price. Ran it by a friend and he scratched his head as well and recommended the Logitech MX Keys for Business. If I don't like the MX Keys I'll consider this keyboard. Thanks!
If it ain't broke don't fix it
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Every time I touch this keyboard I know where the money went.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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So you got the metal one, Das Keyboard 5QS? now $197.01 USD on Amazon
Gamma Zulu soft tactile switches
Guess the other one is plastic top, Das Keyboard X50Q and $127 USD on Amazon
Gamma Zulu soft tactile switches
This one seems pretty cool, full metal construction
Das Keyboard Prime 13 Backlit Wired Mechanical Keyboard, Cherry MX Brown Mechanical Switches, Clean White LED Backlit Keys, USB Pass-Through, Aluminum Top Panel (104 Keys, Black) at $127 USD
Hmm, so many to choose from ...
If it ain't broke don't fix it
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Yeah the 5QS.
The main reason i got it was I was chewing through my keycaps in no time and I wanted to be able to replace them. I haven't had to replace these. The other reason I got it was I was dropping keys because my fingers are quick, yet lazy so I mash multiple keys at once. This keyboard is NKRO meaning I don't drop letters anymore. Weee!
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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jkirkerx wrote: I like mechanical keys, and RGB lighting would be cool I think. Just wondering if there is a great keyboard out there that programmers love.
I don't have much call for programming anymore, but I love my daskeyboard 5QS. They don't use Cherry switches in the newest models, but this thing is sweet to hunt & peck on! Fully programmable, too, as if I'd want to do that...
Will Rogers never met me.
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I bought the ...
Das Keyboard 6 Professional Backlit Wired Mechanical Keyboard - Tactile Cherry MX Blue Switches, Shine-Through Keycaps, 2-Port USB C Hub, Media Controls, Durable Aluminum Enclosure, Volume Knob, NKRO - $200 on Amazon
Very Expensive, but I've been sitting on a pile of Amazon gift cards all year to pay for it, and cashed them in for this.
So now I bought 2 keyboards, including the Logitech MX keys for business with a built-in rechargeable battery.
If it ain't broke don't fix it
Discover my world at jkirkerx.com
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You're going to love it, I predict! Great choice!
Will Rogers never met me.
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I am still using my old MouseSystems keyboard from Comp USA.*
The plastic is so yellow now, but it is probably on its 6th or 7th CPU/laptop.
- no touch pad as the newly introduced touch pad version would lock up after 4 hours
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I use a microsoft wired ergonomic keyboard, it's great quality and took a little getting used to for a month or so because of the shape, but now i wouldnt swap back to an old 'flat' type. GL
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I have been using the G.SKILL KM780 MX Cherry Blue. This is not only an excellent keyboard, but also has 6 additional macro buttons I can use for repetitive tasks when developing. Instead of pressing two keys for some actions, I program one of the keys to do the job. It has the possibility to program 3 sets of 6 macro-keys to have 18 different macros. In my case I use the first for C# in Visual Studio; the second for Python and the third for gamming. By the way this is the original intention for this keyboard: GAMING 
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I'm wanting to get another keyboard as well. Lots of answers here, but I don't see too much as to why a $200 is better for coding than a $50 one? I'm just curious what the advantage is to doing coding.
I'd note that I'm typing this on a stock HP, but since I'm having coffee at the kitchen table, it works because I can set it back further away than the one I use at my desk, which is a Logitech MK wireless. Don't have the luxury of that extra distance at my desk.
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I have a Das keyboard. Brown switches. Doesn’t have all the fancy backlight features, don’t know if they were offered when I got mine.
8 or 9 years later, still working fine, though I’ve been retired for a few years now.
If it ever wears out I’ll buy another Das.
Good luck finding your keyboard. Very personal thing.
Time is the differentiation of eternity devised by man to measure the passage of human events.
- Manly P. Hall
Mark
Just another cog in the wheel
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I am curious to see which one you keep. I miss my MS 6000 desktop setup. I wore it out. and you cannot buy new ones
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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I used Microsoft's Natural Ergonomic[^] for ages and loved it. Unfortunately they phased it out in favor of this one[^] which I had to buy after my old one broke after 12 years of service. I liked old model more but this one is quite good too unless you are looking only for mechanical models
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. T.Jefferson
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I use a couple of WASD keyboards. Although they're not wireless, they can be customized with whatever key switches you want blue, red or brown. With or without numeric keypad. I love them. They're a bit noisy but I work in my home office and so don't care. I think you can get silent switches though.
Just look up WASD Keyboards.
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I use this one Freestyle Edge RGB Split Mechanical Keyboard | Kinesis Gaming[^] with the optional lift kit and it's the greatest I've used in 30+ years of programming. I also added a seperate numeric keypad. The ergonomics with the lift kit, choice of cherry switches, and the programmable left keys all make it a great keyboard. I love cherry brown switches for tactile feedback with very little clack.
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I use two - a Unicomp Model M and a Matias Tactile Pro (the cheapest new Alps-like keyboard I could find - I was able to get a PC variant before they were discontinued).
If I could justify the money for a new Model F...
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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I use a new UNICOM New Model M keyboard which has keys built with classic buckling springs, i.e, as the old-fashioned original IBM contacts. Nice keyboard, with pleasant feedback, when using it. Serious keyboard perfect for software development.
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They're perfect for software development if you work from home!
I have one but I don't dare bring it to work, those suckers are LOUD! I'm afraid I'd get strangled for using one in the office.
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Yes, you are right. And I like the "noise" it makes. I am a senior consultant (with over 37 years of service) working mostly alone from home (office/laboratory). I cancel the noise of my keyboard, like the rest of the noise around me, by continuously listening to very old music (mainly classic and progressive rock) from the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Since I know every single word by heart, listening to it requires no concentration on my part and allows me to do my job with full efficiency ... and so, I pleasantly cancel out ambient noise 
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