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Honestly, I really hate glowing keyboards I go out of my way to avoid them. Same with fans and cases with a LED lightshow built in.

The problem is that it's so hard to find components that constantly don't glow all the time. Even my computer has a LED fan in it, because it was all I could find for cheap. Fortunately it's a old "metal box" type case so except for a vent on the side the glow is almost unnoticeable... but occasionally when the rooms dark I'll see the slight glow seeping out and get annoyed all over again that a tiny fraction of the power my PC is using is for lighting up a closed box.

Build your own, then instead of a 150 dollar keyboard you can have a 350 dollar keyboard that also has lights.

Never understood that hype for everything RGB. I had two shitty mouses (mice?) with RGB, and it was annoying as fuck.

What I find more funny is the mechanical keyboard trend of smallkeyboards (no numpad) with custom everything (keycaps/switches) without any lighting being hundreds of dollars.

Seriously? Y'all are buying steel series? Oof.

Keychron offers superior keyboards for a 4th of the cost.

I bought two different Bluetooth controllers from them. The first one had a known issue with the shoulder buttons. Like an idiot, I bought a second one. Same problem. SteelSeries support told me it was a known issue and they wouldn’t do shit.

I refuse to support SteelSeries.

Don't buy shitty gaming keyboards with shitty software and shitty styling from shitty gaming companies.

Buy a decent mechanical keyboard from a reputable keyboard producer. Make sure it has VIA/QMK support and you will not need shitty software. Many also come with RGB, if that's what you want.

If you can avoid falling into the trap that is "the mechanical keyboard hobby", you will be set for at least a decade.

After just 2 weeks with an Aerox 5 wireless, I refuse to buy anything Steelseries again myself.

Bought it on their website, they refused my in-warranty 30-day refund until I talked with support. After dealing with their troll support for over a week, I then resubmitted for a refund and was initially denied because it was past the 30 days. I then had to argue I wanted the refund weeks prior.

Steelseries are just shit products now with a shit support.

Ended up buying one of the last Microsoft Mice only because it has reliable kailh button switches.

Weird that I feel a bit opposite compared to a lot of comments. I think maybe they find hassle with:

• Crappy proprietary software.
• Forced rainbow spin they can't turn off.
• The feeling this makes the component cost more.

Or other things.

I like the lights though. There's a custom Linux app specially for Corsair keyboards, so that works for me, but everything else listens to OpenRGB!

Soft ambient glow? Easy. Turning ALL of it off? Click. Making it bounce to music? Preset.

Responding to temperatures is useful but I think that might require a little more scripting.

For the longest time my 3090 wouldn't be read by OpenRGB, but eventually they figured it out. :)

Am I the only one who looks at the specs first and only see the RGB as a bonus?

Lit up keys are important, colour isn't.

The way I see it my computer shouldn't be visible and by keyboard should blend in with the desk as much as possible.

I hate that my graphics card has some kind of lights I can't turn off. I've never been interested in any of that stuff

I find it increasingly hard to find decent stuff without that.

Keyboard is one thing. I actually have some slight use for individually customizable RGB on keys, RGB mouse starts to lose me, but at least it is within the range of things I interact with on my computer, But anything past that point, and I'm actively avoiding it as a scam

(Looking at you RGB RAM)

I suspect there's a huge chasm in this between older gamers and younger ones - much better something with better performance (say higher and more precise DPI on a mouse) and robustness (i.e. it doesn't break within a year) than the same kind of flashy light show as a battery powered kids toy.

From my point of view flashy lighting on a mouse is like flashy lighting in a power drill: why are you adding failure modes and weakenning the robustness of a tool to make it look more like a kid's toy?!

My favorite gag from My Deer Friend was the "gaming antler" that just glowed rainbow colors.

Regarding RGB: Uninstall all the shitty software and install OpenRGB instead.

Steelseries is absolute dog water with keyboards, same with Razer. If you want a good mech for cheap, get an Epomaker, or build your own. I personally got a barebones for like $10 from a thrift store, put $35 of Gateron Milky Yellow switches in, then got some nice keycaps for $15. Sounds/feels nicer than anything you can buy off a shelf, and it doesn't come packaged with shitty software for basic functionality.

I ordered the wooting 80HE. Because I hate money.

I will never give up my 1989 Model M..

I needed a backlit keyboard. A rainbow one was the cheapest backlit one I could find. Good enough for my "other" PC. The gaming one had a backlit one with mechanical switches but I got that on the cheap too.

People like pretty things.

My steel series headphones blow ass, but my mouse.... My Rival 300 has been through a lot, so much that the rubber on the sides has a spot worn down to the plastic where my thumb grips it, and its still doing great a decade later.

But yeah, fuck their software.

i don't care how good a keyboard is, if the only option is RGB lights i'm not buying it

Any recommendations on a quiet keyboard anyone?

I've been a gamer and intensive pc user most of my 45 years of my life, and my experience in the last years regarding input devices:

• razer sucked 20 years ago and sucks still
• never buy no-name input devices for more than minimal investment, even if the featureset sounds nice
• logitech (my brand of choice for a long time) is only held afloat by their brand name, not by their hardware quality anymore (the last good mouse i had was the mx-5, the last keyboard the G11)
• but there are exceptions: my roccat keyboard works like a charm, and my current roccat mouse is robust and comfortable (but no RGB compatibility with anything else -.-)

Sounds like they went to shit between when I bought my last one and now. That's a shame, will need to find another company now

My 25 dollar steel series keyboard is fine I can turn blue lights off and I also have a areox wireless mouse works flawlessly and a wireless headset like a older one with micro USB charging and all works gud the software is ight compared to my last gear corsair I'd say steel series is ight now are they good to buy now maybe not especially for the price of some of thier stock. But all in all, my stuff works how I want it and sucks that others got worse experiences. Also lol meme.

I don't mind keys with blue glow letters, but the crazy flashy RGB nonsense is just so goddamn distracting.

I want a wireless mechanical keyboard that takes AA or AAAs

Meanwhile I have two BTC dome with slider keyboards I've picked up before their price got hiked on the retro market (people figured out they're pretty good keyboards and some have pretty good keyboard matrixes, and don't even have membranes (unless you're the tech illiterate that calls the rubber domes as "membranes")).