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Roccat Ryos MK / TKL Pro Gaming Mechanical Keyboard

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Lagomorph

Feb 20, 2016

I've owned the TKL version of this board for about of year and use it every day at work. Overall, I really like this board. I didn't buy it for the wrist rest but having used it, I'm really glad to have it - it's super comfortable.
I write this message for those who might buy this keyboard for it's programmable keys: there are problems. The reason I picked this board over hundreds of others was because it was supposed to be fully software programmable. I wanted to be able to set up a toggle key that switches between regular typing mode and navigation mode, kind of like VI. So in the navigation mode, my left hand would have Page Up/Page Down/Home/End on the home row, and my right hand would have the arrow keys mapped. There's apparently a bug in the software that prevents the arrow keys from being mapped to that part of the board. I emailed support and they confirmed that it was a bug and that while they don't have immediate plans to fix it, there may be a fix down the line... You know how that usually goes.
Anyway, if you're like me and you want a properly programmable mechanical TKL (that requires no software or drivers to be installed), you'd do better to wait until the Input Club K-Type comes out. Having used their Configurator software on my Ergodox, I can confirm that it works perfectly.
It's not to say that his board is bad, it just doesn't work the way I wanted it to (and the way it probably should have).

Feb 20, 2016