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Comment by alfredxing | Hacker News Reader

I find it a bit ironic that after complaining that Apple keyboards have lost all of their "sound" and "force", he goes out and buys a keyboard with Cherry MX Red switches, which have no tactility, no feedback, and very low actuation force.

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He will soon understand and fill his place with keyboards.

You have a point, but it would be rather jarring to go straight from the light touch of a scissor/butterfly switch to the rigidity of an MX Green or a buckling spring. MX Reds and Browns can be a happy compromise.

Agreed. When I got my first mechanical keyboard, I explicitly avoided the Reds and Browns because I feared they might not be tactile enough. (I'm currently using Clears.)

However, a colleague got a Cherry model with Browns, so I could try them out, and they seemed reasonably pleasant. (Haven't used them longer than a minute, though.)

He is very new to this mechanical keyboard thing. He can be forgiven that he is not familiar with the different types on that account.

Have you ever used a keyboard with Cherry MX Reds? It's actually great fun and certainly has that mechanic feel to it.

Yup, I've tried most of the common switches, but ended up getting blues. Obviously it depends on personal preference, but I'm just saying that if you want a tactile, clicky keyboard, reds are usually not your first pick.

I tried reds and its worse than chiclet or butterfly keys, a lot of mistyping. I bet it's good for games though. Blues are annoying, the browns are the sweet spot.

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