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Re:Where Did the QWERTY Keyboard Come From? by Phrodo_00 on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @02:23PM (#37395739)
The reason we had to go backwards to mechanical keyboards is that modern keyboards were being built just for lower prices with no regard to feel or longevity.

Sometimes things don't need innovation. If you don't want to play with a keyboard there's always controllers (that also seem to have found a pretty stable form the last years)

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Re:Where Did the QWERTY Keyboard Come From? by ghaff on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @02:59PM (#37396175)
I have a mechanical keyboard on my main desktop system. But I have to admit that, given the amount of typing I do on short-throw (non-butterfly) MacBook keyboards, I'm not sure I really have a clear preference at this point.

(And there's something to be said more generally for the keyboards you use day to day not being radically different from most other keyboards you'll encounter.)

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