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Hi I am going to buy a mechanical keyboard either compact or top and it probably should be white with rgb to match my mouse currently I am considering the glorious gnome compact or tkl but people say the ducky one two mini is good, but it isn’t hot swappable and desoldering the switches is a pain. If you guys know any other white rgb keyboard could you suggest I am trying to get one with a usbc to usbc cable which the gmmk has

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Unless you are personally intending to play around with switches yourself, the benefit of "hot swappable" is about 0.  As this sounds like it's your first forray into mechanical keyboards, I'm not sure you are going to benefit from that feature at all--unless you have some intention to utilize it as a testbench for testing out different switches.  But at that point, I'm not sure why you'd want a prebuilt instead of just getting a kit and your own assortment of DIY switches to suit your personal taste.

 

After the recent poll I put up, I'm fairly confident in stating that unless you 100% know you are needing a hot-swappable board--that the feature is purely about meaningless bragging rights.  Nobody ever gave a shit about membrane boards and not being able to "hot-swap" switches; it either worked or it didn't.  If you are still using a board after years of use and exceeded the lifetime of the switches it came with--and still intend to stick with the board via switch replacement rather than binning it and getting a new one....congratulations.  You are one in a million.

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Hi I am trying to build a custom mechanical keyboard for under 120 usd I was thinking of getting this case:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07N2KZ5VN?tag=setupgamers-20&linkCode=osi&th=1&psc=1 but I’m not sure if it’s the best for that cost and I need white key caps and some kind of switches that aren’t clicky and the case has to be white too to match my mouse

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