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Linear Matias keyboard review (Matias Quiet Linear)

Posted: 03 Dec 2016, 16:53
by Chyros
There's so little about Matias' new Quiet Linear switches out there, so I did a review on a keyboard modified with them in! Hope you enjoy!

Posted: 03 Dec 2016, 17:07
by Ray
I guess you don't get along with ergonomic layouts, because there it is really hard to hit space with your indexfinger :P
I might have to try the matias linears, let's see if 7bit has them in stock

Posted: 03 Dec 2016, 20:07
by Chyros
Ray wrote: I guess you don't get along with ergonomic layouts, because there it is really hard to hit space with your indexfinger :P
I might have to try the matias linears, let's see if 7bit has them in stock
The worst is that they're split. I don't honour the whole "hands stay on one specific side of the board" rule so it's a total nightmare for me.

Posted: 07 Dec 2016, 13:16
by PollandAkuma
Even worse is that no one really produces 50g Alps springs and that no one really sells these as much as the other Matiases either...

Posted: 07 Dec 2016, 14:58
by sems
Thanks for the review! What do you think about finding custom keycaps for Matias? I'm looking at them for a possible Planck build but even olkb doesn't sell Maitas keycaps.

Posted: 07 Dec 2016, 15:08
by Chyros
Matias will be making PBT keycaps at some point if that's what you're wondering, they recently acquired PBT dyesub tooling. Alps mount is the most common vintage mount, so finding caps isn't actually that hard. As for fancy custom caps, I don't know, I'm not very familiar with that market.

Posted: 07 Dec 2016, 16:17
by sems
Where I live, vintage keyboards are really hard to come by so that won't be an option I'm afraid.
Let's see if Matias can produce nice quality blank caps. Thanks again.

Re: Linear Matias keyboard review (Matias Quiet Linear)

Posted: 21 Apr 2020, 14:10
by rominronin
I enjoyed the video on YT, thanks.