Honestly? I do believe this is a problem of the implementation, not the technology.
I have an old MP3 player, which was recommended to me by a specialist from a music shop. That person really knew his way around the tech (I think the shop owner allowed their specialists to unpack and test out to bare bone every product they had). That mp3 was extremely well with the wired headphones I had back then (with room for improvement).
But then I moved to BT headphones. It sounded good, really good. But once I went for a walk I realized that walking near an Apple user (it would seem Appleās engineers made their BT transmittersā¦ aggressive) I would lose sound for a few seconds. Had several similar occasions like that.
Then I bought my OnePlus (it has been 3 years now, and I donāt even think of upgrading). That one has clearly a better bt module, so I donāt have any sort of connection or stability problem.
Yes, I remember you speaking about this (in a different topic)
A possibility. But still, only when I got my Keychron I finally realized the strongest weak point of a ālow-profileā keyboard (I donāt know how I missed it before) - the spacing between keys and even the main kb part and the āpage up/dwn; insert/deleteā block is lesser. Iām a blind typer and I fully rely on muscle memory to type. With that spacing being less I started to press keys that I didnāt want to.
So my Corsair keyboard is irreplaceable at the moment - hard to find even a wired keyboard with side keys, mx browns and a really well made software. Even bought the K100 and Roccat something to prove that point (Roccat turned out to be a disasterā¦).
So I had the same issue when going from my GSKill Ripjaws gaming keyboard to my Keychron K4v2 (96%). It has a short right shift key to accommodate the arrow keys. I still some times miss the down arrow and instead hit the right arrow but the rest of it has not been an issue transitioning over.
You kinda need to go all in and retrain your muscle memory, swapping back to your Corsair is going to mean you can never fully transition as your constantly trying to train your body to two different layouts.
The problem lies in the opposite direction - I find the spacing between the keys of Corsair to be perfect. Itās that old default keyboard from the early 2000s spacing. With my hand size itās comfortable and my fingers feel great. But with the latest tendency to go small - laptops(glob, I literally can not stand typing on those keyboards even for a second), tkl, minimalistic mice and so on, they decided to reduce that spacing and go with āget use to itā.
My PC is my domain - I donāt go with āget use to itā. I find things that are perfect for me. Not long ago I tried the Corsair k100 with that āwe no longer mx brown. The market says that mx speed has higher salesā(so get use to it). I spent about 250 usd and a month of waiting just to sell it at half a price in a week. The āmarketā mx speed donāt have that small room when you can put your finger on a key and it wonāt activate - keep your fingers in the air (and donāt worry about fingers not being stiff by the end of the day)
Yup, it was Ubuntu.
Finally got too much pissed off from Ubuntu buggyinessness and went for Fedora (but stayed on ext4 just to see if btrfs doesnāt bring anything new to the tableā¦).
From one side, after a few hours I was like thisā¦
Keyboard working from BT, Pipewire with saving sound profiles, clearly faster system and so on. Even DNF is a treat in comparison to APT.
From the other - I got a few solid system freezes with 7 sec POWER being the only option out of it. I do hope that this was extreme luck and wonāt bug me. Somehow they were related to Slack (installed from flatpak) while I tried to share the whole screen, and pritunl (vpn client) during loading.
This isnāt the first time Iām catching such issues though (and not the first laptopā¦ and even a set of apps). I seem to be haunted by Linux spirit.
Apart from thatā¦ I realized why there is Corsair with its pricy hardware and Keychron.
I have my laptop behind the regular pc (yeah, I did not find a better spot for it at the momentā¦). After pulling it out during my tribal dance to access the BIOS (darn thing wants to have F2 pressed from turned off state) I verified the keyboard working just dandy. Then I put the laptop back.
Well, the signal of the keyboard got almost completely unusable - a few seconds to transfer a key press. (and why am I comparing this to Corsair part) And the mouse, Corsair Ironclaw in the same BT mode (hm, also the Sony XM3 headphones) works like a charm.
Think Iām gonna consider a BT usb adapterā¦
Anyway, huge shoutout to all you people, who helped me get to Fedora
The system feels like it lost at least 50 pounds to be honest
Only thing thatās left is to wait for the BT dongle Iāve ordered. It ships with RTL8761B (found on some forums that it should work with kernel >= 5.8 or something). Hope that I will manage to install and configure it (first time doing something similar).
Where I work, >90% of the keyboard tickets were generated by wireless tech. It went so far that we simply banned their use and apart from the odd Coke spillage, we have few tickets today. The savings on AA batteries alone justified the ban.
At home, I have this connected to my RaspPi for checking weather and the like. Size of a remote control, 18 bucks on an Amazon sale.
turning on bluetooth visibility makes the Keychron work perfectly in linux. it connects on the first pairing attempt and keeps working fine and doesnāt drop out
Egh. For me it was Ubuntu. Moved to Fedora and āthat particular issuesā went away.
On the other side, I still got a few problems with the bt adapter I bought, which made me go āhug it!ā and go with USB cable. After finding a reddit post with Keychron also giving āsame shirtā problems in Windows (I was facing those, but thought that it was because I was too far from the antenna) I understood that this IS NOT an OS problem but a āhalf-baked product from Keychronā(I did see it for other models as well). I doubt I will be ever buying their products ever againā¦
