Hi, I hope it’s okay to ask for recommendations on this sub, if not please just delete my post, or lock it down.
So back to the topic, I came here to ask if anyone could recommend me keyboard. I’m a software dev working 100% from home, therefore the keyboard I’m looking for is mainly used for work related stuff. Outside of work I’ll also mainly do browsing, some office stuff and a bit of leisure coding. Gaming is (sadly) nothing I’m doing anymore beside maybe the single day once a year were I’m playing a few hours of factorio or something alike.
Currently I’m mainly using a Logitech MX Keys since my girlfriend got stressed by the sound of my beloved Corsair K70 with blue clicky switches. Since she’s not working from home anymore I’m able to go back to a mechanical keyboard. I would like to switch to one of those fancy split keyboard things since their ergonomics actually seems to be way better then the one of a classical keyboard. I’d also like it to be wireless since I reorganized my desk and actually managed to get a nice cable free desk. Thing is, when I was looking around I found some wireless ergonomic keyboards but most of them were no real split keyboards and almost all of them had rubber domes and no mechanical switches. The mechanical ones I found were all cabled bound and for some reason also incredibly expansive. E.g. I’d really liked the Moonlander thing but it’s already at close to 400 euros, I also liked the ultimate hacking keyboard even more, since one is able to attach a small trackball to it but it’s also cable bound and incl. vat and shipping to Germany it’s above 600 euros…
So to sum it up, I’d be really thankful if anyone of you has some suggestion for a nice mechanical wireless split keyboard.
Thanks
Honestly, even with the price, the moonlander has been a wonderful keyboard. It was my first big keeb purchase after gonna of research. The free and easy rebinding of the keys at a moments notice has allowed me to remain productive whether I am coding, writing documentation, or writing emails. It took an adjustment period being my first split board, but I now have a layout I like. For example, many of the existing layouts do minimal with F1-F12, but I need them daily.
During the day I found myself wanting some keys moved around. I was able to reflash my keyboard with the changes, even setting up macros, in a minute or two. To add to this, hotswappable switches let’s you really customize the board after you get it, should you want a different feel.
Although it isn’t wireless, you don’t really notice that it is wired. Both included cables can be swapped out of you want a different look, but they are both long enough to be comfortable.
If you can spare the expense or save up for it, it’s definitely worth the investment.
The moonlander does look really nice and fancy if it would be wireless I think I might have bought it just because of the fancy looks (might not have been the smartest move given it’s price). But anyway, the wireless thing is like a really hard requirement for me at the moment. It’s partly about having a clean desk but also even more so about not having to move cables around from one laptop to another multiple times per day. The MX Key just connects automagically to whatever laptop I’m using and I’d like to have that as well with whatever new keyboard I’ll be buying myself in the future.
Unfortunately, I am still relatively new to the hoby and don’t have any wireless keebs to recommend. But I am also always using it at a desktop. Good luck in the search though!