I've used red linear, brown tactile, and gray linear switches, and from what I can conclude, I prefer tactile switches all the way. The Graywood Linear switches that I'm currently using on the Aula F87 are by no means bad, but they lack the satisfying bump that was there on the br...
The first mechanical board I bought was a cheap TKL from Cosmic Byte — a sub-par wired model with red soldered switches. I didn't know that at the time, but the level of quality was only going to go up from there. I switched to the popular RK84 from RoyalKludge — a compact 75...
Unless you’re buying a low profile keyboard, in which case you probably don’t need to be told this, you should be making sure that your switches are MX footprint and can mount MX-style keycaps. If this isn’t explicitly written out, MX-style switches are ones that have the cross ...