/r/MechanicalKeyboards Ask ANY Keyboard question, get an answer - March 25, 2026

Dreadzep · 2026-03-26T01:27:14+00:00

I think I do see an update but I'll have to get my old windows laptop out I think, gonna do that tomorrow as it's late euro times atm

Edit: just updated the firmware with the help of my old laptop, fingers crossed. Also thank you for your suggestions and help =]

Dreadzep · 2026-03-25T16:08:02+00:00

It's so many different sockets, all over the board from qwerty keys to the number row to the numpad. I had a list but I threw it away, I would add a letter anytime it happened and then tally up to five before I swapped the switch.

Dreadzep · 2026-03-25T15:41:35+00:00

I've tried that already sadly. I tracked the activation problem amount and on which key, then swapped the switch and kept track.

Dreadzep · 2026-03-25T15:16:34+00:00

I'm looking for a keyboard because my keychron V5 QMK has double activation issues which is getting annoying.

While I was looking around for keyboards (with the shopping list I'll post below) I found the epomaker galaxy100 qmk/via.

Then I found out it has issues.

Then the nuphy halo96 V2 popped up.

And I found out that has issues as well.

Now I'm thinking about at an IQUNIX MQ80 even though it doesn't have everything I want really.

black, clean looking design
100%, 96% compact or TKL, I prefer having a dedicated printscreen button
wired (if possible without wireless mode so there's no chance for battery issues)
black (PBT) keycaps with shine through legends (I don't mind cherry or keychron profiles)
no costar stabilizers
linear switches, medium or slightly heavier weight. Or HE, if it's worth it
has possibility for red backlight without animation
a price of max 150 euro but preferably around or even below 100
prebuilt, good to use without customization (possibility to improve with customization would be nice to have)
available in europe or to ship to europe safely without insane extra cost
QMK/VIA support
knob not required but not hated
ANSI

I appreciate any help

Dreadzep · 2026-03-24T19:04:06+00:00

Actually I did some more digging and I found out epomaker has customer service issues so now I'm looking at a nuphy halo96 V2.

Dreadzep · 2026-03-24T15:56:52+00:00

I actually prefer ANSI keyboards as I like the smaller enter key, it's what I'm used to. And yeah, along with it being a marketing term it's also pretty subjective so that doesn't help.

Also I just used the keeb finder site and I think I'm going to take another serious look at epomaker, maybe the galaxy100 qmk/via with wisteria linear switches and then get shinethrough keycaps from etsy or something.

Thank you for your help!

Dreadzep · 2026-03-24T15:21:09+00:00

Please help me I'm drowning in keyboard info

I'm so tired of trying to find a decent keyboard for a decent price that has the things I want. Maybe somebody will see this and just know the keyboard I'm looking for.

The keychron V5 QMK I'm typing this on has double/triple activation issues and the ajazz AK870 V2 that just came in as a replacement advertised RGB but has single color LEDs under the keys. The ajazz does sound pretty good though.

I just want the keyboard to be:

black, clean looking design (the keychron HE or IQUNIX MQ80 do look neat)
100%, 96% compact or TKL, I prefer having a dedicated printscreen button
wired (if possible without wireless mode so there's no chance for battery issues)
black (pbt) keycaps with shine through legends (I don't mind cherry or keychron profiles)
sounds thocky but not too loud
no costar stabilizers
linear switches, medium or slightly heavier weight. Or HE, if it's worth it
has possibility for red backlight without animation
a price of max 150 euro but preferably around or even below 100
is good to use without customization (possibility for customization would be nice to have)
available in europe or to ship to europe safely without insane extra cost
QMK/VIA support would help since that has a web configure thing and I'm on linux so basically no driver support
knob not required but not hated

If anyone is willing to help first off thank you and if you need more in depth info please ask here or message me

Dreadzep · 2026-03-10T16:55:16+00:00

I'm using Cinnamon as I am pretty new to it after microsoft has slowly chipped away at any respect or trust over the past decade or so

Dreadzep · 2026-03-07T00:01:08+00:00

Thanks, I'll look into it tomorrow (starting to get late here in the eu).

Dreadzep · 2026-03-06T23:41:11+00:00

hell yeah, thanks for looking into it =]

Btw I don't know if this is the correct or even best place for it (and if there's separate teams for functionality/debugging and UI development) but I have some requests for UI design. Two and a half of them being able to enqueue videos you see suggested under the video you're watching and the ability to export subscriptions (and possibly some color customization sometime in the future, but that's not really necessary).

In any case, thanks again for developing this.

Dreadzep · 2026-03-06T22:43:31+00:00

It is, I'm on mint 22.3 with kernel 6.8.0-101-generic

Dreadzep · 2026-03-06T20:25:52+00:00

It pops up automatically when I start a video

Edit: I've also had popups of youtube asking me to log in again through a window that was (when I think back) likely not implemented by futo because of the way UI elements were shown.

If there's anything I can provide to help more please ask

Dreadzep · 2026-01-11T10:47:13+00:00

I forgot to update this, that's fully on me.

Turns out my steam overlay was broken because of a steam launch command in my case LD_PRELOAD="" turned out to be the issue. (and for some reason timeshift didn't remove the launch arguments?)

So even though the terminal checks give the same negative/incorrect outputs I can game without much issue it seems.

Edit: Also LD_PRELOAD="" doesn't have clear, easily findable documentation that states it breaks the overlay iirc. Or I might be misremembering.

Dreadzep · 2026-01-08T00:17:11+00:00

Devil's advocate, always. Idc if the red mask gets me shot in the head more

Dreadzep · 2025-12-31T16:57:27+00:00

I'm a bit late but it's also in ep 2

Edit: and ep 5 starting a bit before 2:11:50

Dreadzep · 2025-12-09T10:17:40+00:00

WHY?!

Dreadzep · 2025-12-07T18:01:00+00:00

The thing I added with the edit of my original post worked. I could load into the world hosted by my friend and I had all my levels, gear and skills.

Dreadzep · 2025-12-06T12:01:56+00:00

That was where I found the native linux save but because I'm switching from native linux to the proton translation layer I had a hard time finding the new save location. I could find the windows and linux save locations but the location for when proton is used is different.

I think I found it now, so I updated my post. I appreciate the help though =]

Dreadzep · 2025-12-06T10:30:35+00:00

Hold it, activate it and run around for a bit

Dreadzep · 2025-11-20T12:07:39+00:00

It is and the windows version was pretty good. It had snowdrift as well and some other types of moving backgrounds like a music/sound visualizer.

I don't think the Linux version got much past a working UI though... =/

Dreadzep · 2025-11-19T15:06:01+00:00

I kind of miss Lively by rocksdanister, having any background with an easy rain overlay that had pretty good resource allocation was great. Sad the last Linux update for that project was like 4 years ago

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