The Perfect Linux/Unix Keyboard? MNT Reform Keyboard Review
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- Опубліковано 2 лют 2022
- Finally, a keyboard that speaks to all the Linux/Unix nerds, supports your Right to Repair, and looks gorgeous while doing it!
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UPD: The 'no switches' version now costs €159 ($182).
The price for the standard version with switches has also been reduced to €189 ($214)
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@@WolfgangsChannel Top notch, thanks!
Still waiting for the iac part 2 video 😭😭😭
QMK absolutely supports OLED displays, just not in the web configurator, there are a lot of features that the web configurator cannot do.
I kind of expected the next keyboard video to be something like: "Mechanical or ortholinear keyboards are overrated. Here's why the Apple Keyboard is actually the best keyboard ever made" lol.
Started this video curious about the reform. Left the video curious about the HHKB....
Best Topre 60% keeb, won't regret it! 👍🏻
Damn it really does look awesome and thanks for introducing the company, I never knew about them. Love their open source posture
Got my own qmk keyboard so addicted to it. I made my own keymap written in C and it was a fun project.
Thanks for the video, what font and color theme do you use for itern ?
Loving the Fantasque Sans Mono 👌
and the whole terminal look, very clean
3:15 the dealbreaker. For 200€ one would expect this very basic "feature".
I guess it's so that you can rearrange keys if you use a non-standard layout (Dvorak, Colemak, etc.)
Also, twitter.com/mntmn/status/1489260808655630340
it's now 189eu, 159 without keys!
Totally agree.
Amateurs looking to make a quick buck vs. people who follow industry standards for good reason.
Nice to see open source hardware. Thanks for the video.
This looks great. I would certainly get one, but I'm happy with my glass keyboard. Are you still using Colemak?
That is a beautiful keyboard, and has some very cool features. Love my moonlander too much though, typing on another keyboard is just weird for me now.
What's up with the 'Color: No Case' option on the MNT website? They really ought to have a picture of that.
Where did you get cyrillic version of the keyboard? :)
Nice idea.
Could you share a link for that electric screwdriver?
Still got my niu mini.
But im thinking of getting a wireless 60% without ortholinear layout.
ortho is way superior, but in my job im not allowed to use my own keyboard (working for the government, security reasons, only their hardware is allowed).
and its weird to switch layouts every day
Hey!, What's up Mr. Pretty Nails...I have been following your video about setting up our own VPN, that was awesome, but now I have a small request..
Would you make a video about the best Gamepads for Linux?
I use the 8BitDo + with Antimicrox which works perfectly for me even better than Xpadder for Windows, I use Kali Linux BTW....Thaaank you.
me thinking of this as a good keeb for linux m(i)nt..
me watching the video: how many keycombos are there in vim that use alt? would be cool easily reaching them alt buttons for that.
also: you mean the А енд О баттенз ?
In terms of the price, I agree with your justification. It's the same reason why I bought a Model F77 from Model F Labs: you vote with your wallet. I not only wanted a re-programmable Model F, but I also wanted to support a small business that is making one of, if not the, most well built made-to-order keyboard I have ever seen. It's expensive, but it will last me a lifetime.
I thought you were using Niu Mini, what happened to it?
So, a new keeb video. Yet another reason to thank you again for the Anne 2 PRO recommendation. I'd probably be still putting off trying mechanical keyboards if not for you, dude. Thanks.
Кроличья нора оказалась настолько глубокой, что я собираюсь спаять себе Keebio Sinc. Будем посмотреть, что из этого выйдет, спасибо за рекоммендации и за отличный контент!
Have you ever tested Nitrokeys products?
Just got mine at the last Friday and I'm super happy with it. Just like other comment said, qmk have a oled config, plus is super straightforward to config.
By the way, speaking of your HHKB, how do you type something like "ё" or "~" with its 60% layout?
It's at the top-right of the keyboard instead of on the top-left :)
Can it do REISUB?
These are Cyrilic buttons. May I ask where are you from? Otherwise, nice video :)
What font are you using here 4:38 for the git branch glyph... it intrigues me.
It's called Delugia
@@WolfgangsChannel installed it and used it but can't find the branch glyph you have on your lualine.
Sorry, I don't know exactly what the glyph is :(
I like the layout. Sad it's not a bare bones gasket mount made for cherry style switches as that's what I prefer.
Ah man you know me and keyboards, I might just be in the market for one of these at some point. I'm really surprised by how good it sounds with no mods to it! I'd love to tinker with a board like this at some point, maybe port my bongo cat animation to it or something
The layout would be ideal for me, if the alt keys and the split spacebars were switched. The way it is, it's just too dissimilar to a standard layout, I don't want to get used to something too different.
A minila kind of layout (ideally the new one) does a better compromise here, where you still have easily reachable modifier keys with the thumbs
you can swap them using qmk
Could probably search around with stuff like "quiet keyboard mod" if you want options for dampening the sound. I'm not that into keyboards but I know lubing the switches and putting sound dampening foams inside the keyboard case are things people do.
You just gave me the idea to remap my backspace key with my right shift key as it is much closer than backspace key
What is the name of that beautiful mousepad?
It's from Etsy: www.etsy.com/de/listing/574653929/graue-schreibtischunterlage-filzmatte
No IaC part 2 ??
😢
When IaC deep dive pt 2?
You edit the firmware by customizing a C header file? Cool, it's like a Suckless keyboard.
Sticking with filco majestouch 2
Is this MNK company from Eastern Europe or why is there native cyryllic keys?
MNT is from Berlin. They have multiple layout choices, including French, German, Japanese and Russian
IaC video 2 when?
So cute 😊
Йецукен!) Это на заказ или они так печатают? I like my Tesoro mechanical keyboard with brown switches.
it sounds amazing though
Really good keyboard but I’m too attached to my new Nuphy Air 75
dear god the remapping seemed so hard lol... amazing keeb though. i want it
As someone who used a HHKB for many years before moving on to a UHK and then finally a ZSA Moonlander, let me just encourage you to keep trying new things. The Moonlander and UHK boards are SOOO much better than the HHKB. (this was typed on the reform keyboard from the reform laptop)
I don't want to know the answer to life I want to know how power users manage to go a full day without a full size keyboard lol.
really interesting :)
“You can use whatever switches you want” isn’t really true. You can only use Kailh low profile switches, which are much more limited in selection than standard mechanical keyboards.
I find it odd that it isnt cheaper without switches, especially with switches as pricy as chocs
Would be an instant buy for me if it supported bluetooth.
I haven't understood if russian keycaps have English letters at the same time
Me and my 15+ year old Ligitech G15 say Hi! Lol. Seriously, I should get a new keyboard. If I had the cash, I would seriously contemplate supporting these people. Cheers.
I totally support open source technology and any other things that facilitate harmony.
I want a Split mechanical keyboard that's wireless
You actually have a lot of options. Basically pick a DIY kit of your choice that would normally take a Pro Micro or Elite-C and use a nice!nano instead. You could use a Pinky4, Corne, Iris, etc.
Ya, interesting keyboard, but I already don't like the bunch of conventions (that do make sense) they throw out the window, like the layout just being rather random and something they made up themselves. - Don't get me wrong, I appreciate people trying something new, that's what I'm like as well, but how do you put the Alt-keys in the middle for example?... I mean, I don't know about anyone else, but my left thumb is exactly there to hit Space all the time. - Do people really move their thumb inwards awkwardly like that?... I did notice that their keyboard currently has a 3-way split bar with no descriptions on them, so they've probably changed it according to feedback or something.
Also, the whole row of F-keys that aren't used a lot at all are still just a waste and can easily be layered under the number-keys. - But then also stuff like no nubs on the F and J keys... like, really?... Those are exactly to know where you are on the keyboard, which has been standardized a very long time ago. - Similarly, I feel that for compact keyboard the directional-keys should be layered under the IJKL-keys. Which some companies have done, but a lot still put them under WASD, which doesn't make sense for typing at all. That's a "gaming"-standard, which has nothing to do with typing. And I also don't agree with separate directional keys, which still make you have to move your hand to the bottom-right.
Then there's also the matter of "ortholinear", but that's probably something that will never be standardized or normalized, at least not in our lifetimes.
That said, I do appreciate what they're trying to do, and for not too much money. I mean, look at the keyboards that System76 makes, which seem less unique for more money, between 200 and 300 USD. - As for this one, I think you might be off just as well with something like the Sharkoon PureWriter, which is a lot more basic, but has a lot of value for the money with the same switches, albeit a choice between two versions, no hot-swapping (I think), and no reprogramming (again, I think), but that's also for well below 100 USD/EUR. - Though, still mechanical, with lighting, as well as a removable USB-C cable. - Also, how much effort you need to put into programming the MNT isn't really acceptable. I'd just go with the Ducky or Anne, which is probably considered very "basic", but they do make more sense in a "if it ain't broke don't fix it" kind of way.
Souds very nice.
I am constantly enamored that I'm not the only one who appreciates the Unix layout, as niche of a niche as it is. The Sun Type 5C is pretty comfy but perhaps I should splash out on an HHKB or one of these.
On the miniature it looks like you had a tanktop with a medieval woman's chest armor ;) Please swap a miniature hehe
why would you buy a keychron keyboard on aliexpress instead of their real website ?
Dunno - I typed "low profile mechanical keyboard" into the Aliexpress searchbar and literally clicked on the first result.
I really wonder what vim color scheme that is: ua-cam.com/video/-zUenHY3Bws/v-deo.html. It looks stunning!
if builded my own redox keyboard which costs 300+ after blowing up multiple MCU's😂 so 200+ seems oke now
One can get a perfectly functional keyboard for $2 at a thrift stop. I bought a few différent ones and just kept one that most pleased me.
You can buy a ballpoint pen for 10 cents which will write perfectly but you can also buy a luxury pen like a montblanc... Or a watch for a few dollar/euro but also a Rolex or Patek Phillipe for multiple thousands.. I don't think you can really compare your 2 dollar keyboard to a high end keyboard, but they will both have the same functionality to type out text..
You can also dive the dumpster behind Comp usa and get a beer box full of memory sticks and see if any were still good !
@@dougtilaran3496 Good Idea.
Too pricey for me, but I'd love to support it if I could.
I think the perfect Linux keyboard would be 5 Rows of Keys rather than a traditional 6 rows. This allows the typists to key their hands on home row almost all the time rather than constantly having to pick them up and move them away from "home row position". It could be possible to have a 5 Row 60% keyboard like that by using multiple "shifter" keys (ctrl, shift, alt, fn). The F1-F12 keys can be combined with the top row keys and activated by pressing the fn shifter key. HOWEVER, I HAVEN'T SEEN A SINGLE 60% KEYBOARD THAT ACTUALLY WORKS WELL WITH LINUX. MINE DOESN'T. DEVELOPERS NEED TO DO SOME SERIOUS WORK TO HELP LINUX AND VIM USERS KEEP THEIR HANDS ON HOME ROW, IF THEY WANT.
And I hated Razer drivers and the hustle there .... oh boy :)
Please fix openbooks download error . We are able to search but unable to download . Please fix it . 🙏
I'm not the Openbooks developer
Usually don't like mechanical keyboard, to high to thick, but this one look ok. But yeah 160$ for a keybaord... hard to justify for me even if a use laptop all day long for my work.
I understand also the argument of open-source but.. i'm already use to remap the keys of my keyboard laptop/mouses/trackballs so...
Thea cooles Thinge ist has neo2 keycaps
О бля, кейкапы только с кириллицей! Моему бате понравится
Without Unix layout how is it a perfect Unix keyboard?
It is literally UNIX layout
@@WolfgangsChannel It's not, MNT Reform is ANSI layout. HHKB, some Sun keyboards are UNIX layout.
so...why do you have keyboard with russian letters..?
Has anyone ever told you that you look like Andy Dufresne from The Shawshank Redemption?
@1:33 🥑🥑🥑
The best Keyboard ever ever (for me) is simply the Thinkpad Trackpoint Keyboard II =)
Doesn't speak to me, I'm happy with my happy hacking keyboard
Just get an HHKB
Большая кириллица реально круто смотрится. Как на старых советских компьютерах)
Чот я не понял в чём прикол? Почему кириллица на клавишах?
@@user-rt8pm2pf3d может потому что автор живёт в снг?
@@ddln785 Нее, он из германии вроде.
@@ddln785 Нет, он живёт в Германии, а там много русских
Where’s the numpad? I play modded games, and that ain’t enough keys!
Too small and lacking number pad etc.
Perfect keyboard?...proceeds to explain all the modifications needed.
Hence the question mark...
I am such a normie that i would never buy this but this is still so cool lol
fortnite burger king
KFC roblox
No trackpoint? I'll stay with my trusted SK-8855 then...
Yes, but Tex Shinobi.
@@shrizza not really. I never liked cherry mx mechanical keyboards. Low profile ones are much better. Also Shinobi utilizes mechanical keys for trackpoint buttons, which is really dumb :/
@@d_fens It's really not bad at all, as someone who's owned like 6 ThinkPads. I would take it over a real ThinkPad keyboard any day.
@@d_fens Different strokes. Don't get me wrong SK-8855 is a great keyboard (it has to be since it's just an external X220 kb). I do own one, as well as a SpaceSaver II. But it's nice to see a company like Tex carrying the torch and looking out for what a ThinkPadist might like.
The kailh switches are the worst. Their keycaps break so easily.
Super cool but too expensive and esoteric
Hm... I thinked that you are from Germany... but u from Russia. Cool!
Блин, свичи там каловые:( У меня кейхрон с такими, они супер инконсистант, каждый по разному ощущается.
УМВР
I really don't see why it should be so hard to change the key layout in this rather expensive keyboard whose selling point is being open
I think the real question here is--For the love of all that is holy how do you have almost 3,000 unread messages in your inbox??
so after all that talk about ortho 40% you are back on normie keyboards?
Just a reminder that you mech plebeians will NEVER experience the pure luxurious comfort that is authentic Nippon Topre™. I explain why it also cures your mech keyb addiction in a recent video of mine, show me some love Wolfgangbros
Very overrated, imo. At minimum I'd need something with QMK support, split, columnar stagger. If it checked all those boxes and also had topre switches I would consider it.
@@SoundToxin you're just built different
Nop, but thanks
Вольфганг то оказался Володей! :)
Ah yeah, the German tech pipeline ;P
No numpad. Nope.
no nail polish? shame
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.
Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
Russian later Keycaps 👍
Uncanny timing
Im transitioning currently.
No not that kind.
To linux.
And was looking for a nice keyboard to shred on.