New mechanical keyboard
After the long rant about the mechanical keyboard market, I bought the best mechanical keyboard that meets nearly all of my requirements - the Royal Kludge R87 Pro.
- 87% - Compact enough but not cramped
- No wireless, no batteries, obsolescence and stuff to worry about
- Ins/Del/Home/End/PageUp/PageDown key array at the correct places
- Replaceable keycaps
- Replaceable switches
- VIA/QMK support
- Brown switches aren’t noisy
- Pretty affordable - all of this at roughly ~$50 in India
- It’s not low-profile, but it is lower than most other mechanical keyboards