Not All Linears Are The Same!
Figure 1: Not even all of these (mostly) KTT-made linears are the same! After all of my years of collecting, reviewing, and obsessing over switches, I can say with certainty that linear switches are the most misunderstood of all of the switch types. No, I’m not talking about mechanically either, as all of the claims of them “just going straight up and down” are somewhat kind of true. (Not too much though, don’t get that excited.) The part that is often misunderstood, though, is usually in what is being implied when people say that these switches just go straight up and down – “All linears might as well be the same.” If the title of this article didn’t make that obvious enough to you, I find that sort of idea to be completely and utterly wrong. The people who make these implications wouldn’t say that a Cherry MX Black is the same as a Novelkeys Cream switch? They also certainly wouldn’t ever claim that every Gateron-made linear is the same as every fancy TTC one out there...
May 29, 2024
The keycaps are solid, and the overall first impression is: It's weird.
This is my first board with linear switches and they're not as bad as i thought they would be, the keycaps are nice and thick, and everything just seems to be right for me. I am using media mode right now and it's weird since noppoo decided it was a good idea to have the right shift as an arrow key completely, I would have liked it more if the arrow keys were a bonus function where you had to hold an additional key for them to unlock (volume keys should have been the main keys instead of the arrows and the arrows in the FN layer.)
The case seems to be a little more beige than the keycaps themself but i don't mind myself, another thing to note is that the keyboard is connected via a lightning USB cable instead of a normal mini/micro USB, which isn't something i enjoy too much, but hey, can't have everything.
I'll see if i can customize this board to my liking via pro mode, if anyone has questions let me know, i'll be happy to help
EDIT: The pro mode is a bliss, actually makes this keyboard what i wanted it to be, it allows one to change the whole layout to one's likes and that was moving arrows to FN for me