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>requiring special mechanical keyboard

Well youngster, you seem to be falling behind the latest trends. Maybe you're not as young as you think. Don't you know all the fashionable programmers/gamers are using mechanical keyboards?

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He speaks truth, i am one such youngster programmer/gamer. Mechanical keyboard FTW.

IBM Type F or M - which r3minds me must build that Aurduio Base USB converter of my Type F

All that clickety-clack must be so satisfying. And annoying to everyone else.

Screw everyone else. Look out for #1 as he said. I like to know when I clickety-clacked the key I was looking for. Mechanical keyboards ftw.

Not all mechanical keyboards are loud or clicky. I use one with Cherry Browns and mostly type without bottoming out the keys, and it's no louder than cheap keyboards.

I love the browns! But Blues are a lot more fun (and loud!) to program on ;)

Because loudness equates to competence?

Just a feeling of productivity, from producing so much noise. But it really is satisfying, if you haven't tried it.

And I've found that you start wanting to type faster, to create even more noise. So it might actually make you more productive, in a weird way.

Ugh, it's so much noise for your neighbor though. I worked next to someone with an old IBM keyboard for a year and was grumpy the entire time. Couldn't find headphones strong enough to cancel out what sounded like someone shooting an automatic weapon in the office.

I think there's a happy medium with the quieter cherry switches. But yeah, I don't use a mechanical keyboard in settings where I'm right next to other people.

Hmm I work from home a lot, maybe I'll try one.

You don't have to get a mech that is loud.

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