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At the risk of boring myself, I continue my obsessive ranting about my search for a tolerable keyboard.
As previously noted, I settled for a brown-switch Das-4 keyboard, and decorated it with off-white retro alpha keys. Aesthetically I am happy, but now that I opened the floodgate, my fingers want more!
Brown switches are supposedly tactile, and the graphs show that after traveling for a millimeter or so the key 'collapses', that is the resistance drops for a bit, increasing again prior to bottoming out. In practice, I can feel the collapse if I press the key very slowly, but not nearly as much as I want.
When I type fast, the feedback is not enough, and I wind up bottoming out the key hard, resulting in a pretty loud experience. A brown switch is a little bit more pleasant than a cheapo keyboard (and offers more resistance overall, for sure), but is not preventing me from pounding the keyboard.
So I am still banging away rather loudly, and probably not doing my arthritic fingers much good by bottoming the switches.