She’s growing up, and she’s got a framework 13 laptop with fedora 40, which is great, but she’s been using hand me down peripherals.

She’d love a decent mechanical KB as she likes the clicky clicky of the keys, but the last one I got her, a Lofree, basically bit the dust in no time.

She’s SUPER into the aesthetics but doesn’t want RGB led’s, but DOES like a nice backlit keyboard.

When searching for it, amazon, best buy and the rest just pollute the results, so it’s actually difficult to decide what to get her. Her birthday is coming up so this will be her main gift.

What have you all had good luck with that might be aesthetically pleasing, that the quality wasn’t trash like Lofree.

EDIT: thank you for all your suggestions, I’ve sent her a bunch of links to look at and she’s going through them now. I’ll try to remember to post back what she picks.

  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
    47·
    4 days ago

    For all the normal people, the really good keyboards come from Logitech

    (with the one exception of the legendary IBM PS2 keyboard, where you can hear the typing in the next 3 rooms and it swallows years and years of coffee stains and cigarette ash without ever failing and if you hit your burglar’s head with it, he won’t get up anymore so you can just continue typing…)

    Only if you want your keyboard’s firstname to be “Gaming”, you have to look elsewhere.

    • stoy@lemmy.zip
      4·
      4 days ago

      Logitech isn’t bad, but I’d consider them mid to high tier at best.

      I am however boycotting them since they broke my trust a few years ago, and I have had no indication that they have stopped.

      They broke my trust by installing programs on my computer without my consent.

      I bought a Logitech MX Ergo trackball mouse for work and connected it to my computer, within seconds and without asking me for permission they installed Logitech Download Assistant and made it show a popup.

      I am fine with automatically getting drivers from Windows Update when I connect a USB device, but I will not accept installing programs on my computer without asking me for consent. I pride myself on having a clean system (as much as Windows can be), knowing what is installed and from where, and Logitech forced their crap on me.

      You want a good keyboard/mouse?

      Go for Ducky for the keyboard, and pick Xtrfy or Pulsar for your mouse. The Xtrfy mouse doesn’t even use any software on the computer, the Pulsar can use software on your computer but it is optional and any settings made in it are saved to the mouse, I even set mine up with the software in a VM where I passed the mouse directly through to the guest Windows 10 machine, then when I trusted the software did I install it on my normal machine, and only really use it to check the battery level.

    • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
      63·
      4 days ago

      I’m sorry, (and I don’t know what this individual means by “normal people”) but this is bad advice. Please do not buy Logitech anything, especially not a MX keeb.