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the keyboard is mushy and the left ctrl key randomly stopped working2021 G15 (GA503QM), 3⅓ years old: the keyboard is a little less mushy than other laptops I’ve had by a similar age—HP 6710b, some Clevo thing (its keyboard was atrocious in well under two years, with Space and A particularly badly functionally affected too), and Surface Book. Left Arrow key become unreliable earlier this year, requiring significant extra pressure sometimes, or already pressing down another key (e.g. press LCtrl at the same time and it was completely fine, which is telling of the nature of the fault), and now almost never works. E has also been just a tiny bit unreliable at times, as far as its activation point is concerned, but all of my keyboards have had at least one or two issues like that within three years. For reference, I use my laptops extremely heavily (often been >10h and I don’t know how many thousand words per day), and don’t take the greatest care of them either, though significantly better than some people I’ve seen. I have little doubt I’d be in the top 0.01% for laptop keyboard wear.