Keychron K8

January 19, 2022  |  Hardware  ·  Keyboards

I’ve bought three mechanical keyboards recently, and my favorite so far is the Keychron K8 with Gateron brown switches. It took me some time to get used to the switches, but I think they’re pretty good. That doesn’t mean I won’t experiment with others. I really want to try different Cherry switches as well as custom keycaps.

The only thing I don’t like about the K8 is its closed‑source firmware. But it looks like Keychron will start selling an open‑source K8 pretty soon.

I don’t think I’ll buy it, because I’m more or less happy with the current model, and I can probably flash some open‑source firmware on it anyway.