Your Keyboard Thread has a good Timing. Now I can blame You that I bought a new Barebone Keyboard on the Amazon Prime Deals, hahaha!
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I'd gladly accept the great honor, of showing you amazing things, to feed your acquisition disorder. 
I can't wait to see a picture of the keyboard you ordered fine sir! 
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Hello all my Zorin brother's and sister's out there, I bring more gifts of pictures, to bring joy to your souls. As someone once said, if ya got problems with both your keyboard and mouse, no need to do things half baked, do it right, and get the collection.
SteelSeries Aerox 5 mouse. Optical GOLD switches. 18,000-CPI optical sensor. PTFE bottom feet. Strongly built scroll wheel, that has strong quiet indents. Mouse button clicks are strong and true, no double pressing. Mouse is light weight, only 66g, which I prefer, easier to move on the pad surface, no dragging experienced.
Mouse sensor tracking appears to be accurate, no problems there. Chrome button on the top, is a sensitivity adjuster, there seems to be 5-different ranges. Plenty of adjustment to satisfy me, without needing software adjustment, and I am using it on the 3rd setting, which feels like maybe 1900-2000-CPI.
PTFE feet are awesome, mouse just glides on the surface. Mouse is not exhausting to use, due to it not being heavy. Mouse is easy to control. It uses a detachable USB-A to USB-C meshed sleeved cable, just like my keyboard does. FYI, I use a cord bungee to keep the cable from snagging everything.
The mouse has an interesting skeletal look to it. They did this to shave off the weight, to bring it down to that 66g, without completely sacrificing structural integrity. Then just add a few RGB LED's inside, to give it that futuristic outer space action movie lool, and your solid as a rock.
Ergonomics of the mouse is by far, the best I've ever used, I'm actually impressed by that. Overall build quality is fairly solid. Is it as strong as my Logitech G502 Hero with issues? Nope! But a mouse's outer casing, doesn't need to be built to Fort Knox standards either. Build quality is decent enough!
I'd have to use this mouse for at least a year, to produce a conclusive review, through personal experience. Having said that, initial impressions are good on this mouse, and I just hope that the button switches last longer. The buttons certainly feel better, and sound better, so there's hope.
I hope you enjoyed this post, and I hope you have a wonderful day, or night, depending on where you are.
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This article includes a hilarious analogy:
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Oh I completely agree, and I came to that conclusion about 14-years ago, when gaming mice already got sensitive enough, that the cursor was no longer moving like molasses. lol
To be perfectly honest, I couldn't control the cursor with the slightest of human movement, if I forced the mouse to operate at its max 18,000-CPI lol. To be perfectly honest, CPI is just a flex from manufacturing companies now.
What matters more, is the ability to adjust the CPI on the fly, lower or higher, (Which does matter in games, depending on the sensitivity you need) which this mouse can do. Also, what matters more, is the tracking sensor, and how precise it is.
Another thing that matters, is the durability of the button switches, as I had mentioned in my initial thought review. When companies use cheap switches, they typically start failing after a year of use, and get progressively worse, as the years go by, until the mouse is completely unusable.
This is why getting a new mouse that had optical switches, mattered to me. From what I've read, those gold switches are decent, so thats why I am hoping that they don't fail on me.
Also, the highest I've ever had to push the CPI in a game, was around maybe 6,000-CPI. And the only reason I did that, is because the game I was playing, was forcing my CPI sluggishly low in game, to mimic a big ship gun canon, acting like I have to manhandle it to operate.
I wish more game companies would do their research, based on what we know with big guns on US navy ships, nobody man handles the rotation left/right, nor the up/down of them. They are hydraulically controlled, so they should move relatively quickly.
So knowing that, a big ADS canon on a ship, or whatever equivalent, shouldn't be sluggish to move, with hydraulic controls. But when games pull that garbage, I'll up the CPI way up, in order to compensate for that BS, so I don't have to make a several mile travel with my mouse lol.
Good article @Aravisian thanks for posting!
I enjoyed your latest addition! What a marvelous mouse, I love the skeletal look of it. It will be interesting to read your full review after a year's time, and see how the button switches are holding out.
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Okay, then I will share my new Board, too. Like I wrote above it is a Barebone. That means no Switches and Keys. It is a Glorious GMMK TKL in black (an older Model):
Maybe not the best Picture. Sorry for that. It has an Aluminium Top Frame and a Plastic Case. Yes, there are One's with a Metallic Case but I prefer a Plastic Case - a good Plastic of Course. I find the Sound is better with that.
The Board is Cable-only and has prelubed Stabs. They are not the best but not the worst. It has a 3 Pin PCB which was a bit an Issue. Why? The Switches I use - Akko Fairy Silent and Penguin Silent - are having 5 Pins. That means I had to remove from every Switch the 2 Plastic Pins. That was annoying. For the Keycaps I used the One's that I already use: Glorious GPBT Keycaps in Arctic White. They are not shine-through.
And that is the Result. A decent black-and-white Design:
A Mouse wasn't neccessary for me because I already have changed that to a Glorious Model O wired in white.
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A glorious keyboard is right, because thats what it is. I really like the look of those white keys, their styling dude! 
I assume those silent switches are linear, only way mechanical is ever quiet. Sorry to hear of the surprised issue, with 2 pin vs 5.
Sounds like your quite resourceful though, and made it work. Good job! I bet its a dream to type on.
Also, since the keys are white, it would only take a dim desk lamp light to light up your keyboard to see the keys too.
Thanks for sharing your keyboard beauty with us, your positively stellar.
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Well seeing as some people are really into sharing their keyboards now, I might as well add mine to the mix that I made for work:
It's an epomaker ek75 with (previously) some tactile switches made originally and some aliexpress special keycaps that quite frankly I love. Every time I hit the backspace, I think I should take a break. It really helps.
Of course, after being in the job for a while, I had a few coworkers complaining about the noise, so I switched the switches to silent linears to make them happier. Wired or wireless. And most importantly, a nice little slot to put the wireless dongle when it's not in use (WHICH SHOULD BE ON EVERY KEYBOARD EVER, sorry I get very mad when I see a keyboard that is wireless and doesn't have a spot to put the dongle).
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It was not a Surprise, I knew that. But the Switches were ... in German there is a Word called ''alternativlos'' which means ''without an Alternative''. So, I had to take it. But it was still an annoying Thing to clip off these Pins.
And the Fairy Switches are Linear; that is right. And there offer a buttersmooth Typing. For me important: you don't need much Force to press them. The Penguin's are Tactical Switches but Silent One's, too. I used them because I didn't had enough Fairy's, hahaha!
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''Take A Break'' and a Couch ... Nice One, hahaha!
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Hello @applecheeks37
Its understandable why we are into keyboards, because we need them to operate computers. And with that, if were going to be using computer's all day, we might as well have a nice keyboard, that feels good to type on.
I think I count 5 different colored keys, as well as a stripped backspace key. Part of your keyboard reminds me of the old IBM days, where they made the best mechanical keyboards we ever used, which are going for stupid money on Ebay.
Thanks for sharing!
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Yeah, its not like back in ancient times, when everybody typed on typewriters, literally the loudest typing machines in the world, imagine 35 of them being used at a time, filling the room with noise pollution, and everybody just accepted it and dealt with it.
Now days, people in the office don't want to hear your keyboards, they've become spoiled with the quietness of membrane keyboards. Reality is, mechanical keyboards are always better, I stopped using membranes about a decade ago.
I remembered back when I was in school, typing on IBM mechanical keyboards, and loving how good they felt. To be honest, this SteelSeries Omni 3 hyper-magnetic linear switches, just feels so good to type on, I think its the closest a modern keyboard gets to the old IBM keyboards.
Only real difference is, my keyboard is quieter to type on, I think IBM used brown switches if I remember correctly, I could be wrong though. Like I said above, its crazy how much people want for those IBM's on Ebay, I'm like, its an antique keyboard, not a computer. lol
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It is not a whole Computer, yes. But it is antique. So, it is expensive, hahaha!
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Vintage...
Unless those keyboards are greater than 100 years old...
A related question: Does anyone have a recommendation for a Linux-friendly gaming mouse? Difficulty: 12 button thumb-pad mandatory. I've used Logitech G600s for many years after having two Razer Nagas fail. Since then, I've actually had five or six G600s fail. They don't last, but they have a feature I've not seen anywhere else that I love: a ring finger shift button. Anyway, my current G600 is on its last legs; Diablo 4's expansion has killed its left mouse button, and the only replacement I see on Amazon or Newegg are over TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS. It seems to me that Logitech must've discontinued it.
Razer is notorious about its software, so I want to avoid them, but I'm unfamiliar with any of the other brands that have 12 button thumbpad mice on the market. The ring finger shift button would be wonderful to keep, but no one else ever even tried to emulate that.
Quite a discussion in this Reddit thread...
You have to scroll a ways before you start seeing suggestions of alternatives. But, there may be useful information in the chatter in any event.
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Hello there @Locklear93
It was clear that you were looking for a gaming mouse to play an MMO on Linux, when you asked for a 12-button mouse. I find that Corsair peripherals are better supported on Linux currently, over my newest SteelSeries peripherals. (Although I expect that to change in the next OpenRGB update, whenever that comes)
That is the gaming mouse you want to play an MMO with, the Corsair Scimitar Pro.
The software to control Corsair peripherals on Linux, is CKB-NEXT
Only reason its no longer installed on my machine, is because I switched to SteelSeries, and CKB-Next doesn't support SteelSeries peripherals, at least not mine, so I removed the dead weight from my machine lol.
Good luck!
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Actually, to play not-MMOs on Linux. At age 9, I had an incredibly severe head injury that left me left-side paralyzed for some time. Occupational therapy and physical therapy got things usable, but my left hand and arm are still incredibly uncoordinated compared to my right. I'm touch typing this, but periodically the left hand still just kind of derps and won't work as intended. Managing more than WASD in a game is VERY difficult, and I routinely have to remap any keys adjacent, or I'll hit R, G, F, C, E, or Q when I don't mean to. The more I can offload to my right hand, the better, so even if it's an FPS, an isometric ARPG, or a third person action game like Genshin Impact or ZZZ, I want the thumbpad. I'm interested in what Razer has done with the model that lets you swap from a 12 button to a lower button count by switching out the side, but since Razer's off the table, I stick with 12 for the games that need that many. The shift key I pine for on the G600 lets me use it as holding shift/alt/ctrl, etc, which is a huge boon in some MMOs where I have 36 actions on hotbars (though I'm not playing any of those currently) and Genshin, where holding alt activates the mouse cursor for menus instead of camera control/hitting Alt-numeral switches characters and instantly uses their ultimate.
(Tl;dr: it's basically an accessibility feature for me.)
Thanks for the recommendation, I'll put it at the top of the list to read up on.
It was interesting that a couple of ergo mice had ring finger buttons, but aside from difficulty adapting to an ergo mouse (which can be managed with patience), they're both vertical...ish. I'm kinda stuck with a lap tray on my desk that means my mouse and keyboard have ~2.5" clearance.
The X15 from that thread might be workable despite a weird button layout that moves four buttons away from the other 8. It does claim to have a shift function to double buttons, but with no physical button to activate it and no proper manual (stupid quick start guides...), It'll have to be researched too. Also not sure how Linux friendly it'll be, given a software config tool for Windows. From your link: "6 years later I'm still looking for the successor of G600..." Yep. This is my experience too.
I'll see what I can find out about the X15 and Corsair Scimitar Pro. Thanks, both of you.
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I do this regularly without a brain injury.
F11 or F12 when I went for Backspace are also common...
I recently switched to an ergonomic mouse and it does take a lot of getting used to...
I seem used to it by now, a couple weeks later... But even so, I would not say fully used to it.