I’ve had a ROG Azoth (don’t judge) keyboard for about a year now. Been using it for both programming and gaming, and I really like it, but there are a few issues (software being the obvious one). So I’ve decided it’s time to put together my own keyboard. I started watching some YouTube and yeah… I’m out of my depth here.

So I was wondering if maybe people could share things they wish they knew when starting out so I don’t mess up to badly.

I’ve already found this switch tester which I figured would give me a general idea of what kind of switches might be for me. Other than that, I’m not really sure how to proceed 😅.

I’m not interesting in doing any soldering.

  • Lembot_0001@lemm.ee
    7·
    3 days ago

    My keyboard has a few modes of backlight. Most of them are crazy shit without any purpose. I can’t disable them programmatically as their shitty shitware doesn’t work under Linux. So after every reset/turn-on I cyclically run through those blimping abominations of backlight modes.

    I miss old IBM or Mitsumi keyboards that were just keyboards.

    • alehel@lemmy.zipOP
      1·
      2 days ago

      Oh, that’s a good thing to look out for when investigating possible purchases. My Azoth screen goes on at 100% every time I start it, so I have to go through the menu to disable it. Got old real quick.

    • otacon239@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 days ago

      You might like WASD Keyboards. They’re super minimal and chunky. You can even get blank/custom key caps as a factory option.

      Edit: Just checked and apparently they are no more 😭 Damn. One of the better ones, too.