I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I use a black keyboard on a black mat in a relatively dark room, and if I turn the backlight off on my keyboard I find it trickier to line my hands up before I start typing.
Same with the mouse. When I got a "gaming" mouse with a coloured LED in the back, I thought it was silly and looked to disable it, but now it means I can locate the mouse in the dark without having to grope around my desk.
I'd love a keyboard with a plain white or single-colour backlight, but it's difficult to find them with a quality board and an ISO layout. All the good combinations assume you're using US layouts :/
On a laptop, I have a toplight (on a Thinkpad) which is ok. The backlight on my Macbook keyboard is much more pleasant to use though.
I'd love a keyboard with a plain white or single-colour backlight
How about a multi-colored LED and set the color to be always white (or any other single colour)?
I personally use this at home and I can just set the color I want in the software. I'm currently stuck on a color schema where the keyboard reflects my colors on the screen. So when the top half of my monitor is red, the top half of my keyboard is also red.
Also, it's pretty slim. I don't like bulky keyboards.
A Senior Developer working mostly with PHP and JavaScript, with a bit of Python thrown in for good measure, all on Linux. My tooling is simple, it's GitLab and JetBrains where possible.
I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
RGB is fine, but the one I've got right now (a TKL Tecknet cheapy) is one of those that has a different fixed colour for each row, so I can have flashing effects (NO!) or a solid rainbow or all-off. All-off is too dark to see and the rainbow is kinda garish and ugly (and this is coming from someone who wears rainbow gloves, so...)
On the other hand, it's UK-layout, blue switches, solid metal backplate and feels really good to type on, so...
A Senior Developer working mostly with PHP and JavaScript, with a bit of Python thrown in for good measure, all on Linux. My tooling is simple, it's GitLab and JetBrains where possible.
I'm thinking that because my room is mostly light (and my 3 monitors make it light in the dark) that I likely won't need the backlight on a keyboard. My current keyboard is backlit, but I don't think I really use it.
If I went for a backlit keyboard, I'd probably want one where each key can have a different colour, simply so I could set most of them one colour, and then have the "Super/Windows" key in Ubuntu Orange.
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Yes, backlighting matters. To some people.
I use a black keyboard on a black mat in a relatively dark room, and if I turn the backlight off on my keyboard I find it trickier to line my hands up before I start typing.
Same with the mouse. When I got a "gaming" mouse with a coloured LED in the back, I thought it was silly and looked to disable it, but now it means I can locate the mouse in the dark without having to grope around my desk.
I'd love a keyboard with a plain white or single-colour backlight, but it's difficult to find them with a quality board and an ISO layout. All the good combinations assume you're using US layouts :/
On a laptop, I have a toplight (on a Thinkpad) which is ok. The backlight on my Macbook keyboard is much more pleasant to use though.
How about a multi-colored LED and set the color to be always white (or any other single colour)?
I personally use this at home and I can just set the color I want in the software. I'm currently stuck on a color schema where the keyboard reflects my colors on the screen. So when the top half of my monitor is red, the top half of my keyboard is also red.
Also, it's pretty slim. I don't like bulky keyboards.
Looks nice. Compact and useful. Shame the UK layout is out of stock.
RGB is fine, but the one I've got right now (a TKL Tecknet cheapy) is one of those that has a different fixed colour for each row, so I can have flashing effects (NO!) or a solid rainbow or all-off. All-off is too dark to see and the rainbow is kinda garish and ugly (and this is coming from someone who wears rainbow gloves, so...)
On the other hand, it's UK-layout, blue switches, solid metal backplate and feels really good to type on, so...
All in one color isn't possible with yours right now? bummer :/
I've got blue switches at work too - great choice!
I'm thinking that because my room is mostly light (and my 3 monitors make it light in the dark) that I likely won't need the backlight on a keyboard. My current keyboard is backlit, but I don't think I really use it.
If I went for a backlit keyboard, I'd probably want one where each key can have a different colour, simply so I could set most of them one colour, and then have the "Super/Windows" key in Ubuntu Orange.