Ducky Year of the Horse

2014 edition of the ducky limited chinese zodiac edition was my first 60% keyboard and the first (and last?) non-programmable one. In 2017 I replaced the default keycaps with GMK Laser.

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After my first “modern” mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX Brown switches I wanted to change to a heavier switch because the MX Browns felt to light. After some research on the interwebs I ordered a Ducky Shine 3 with Cherry MX Green switches. I had to send back the board twice because of failing LEDs after a couple of days of usage and was not very impressed with Ducky and the MX Greens are way to heavy for daily usage.

After a while I stumbled over a video by ducky teasing the Year of the Horse edition of the Ducky Mini. So I took the risk and trusted Ducky once more and ordered this keyboard. The LEDs are still working but are not uses anymore because I removed the keycaps.

After a few days of getting used to it I was hooked on the 60% layout and stuck with it till 2019. I am really into optimising workflows with tools, shortcuts etc and a smaller keyboard prevents switching to e.g. the arrow keys and function keys which I use quite often.

from xkcd

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Since this keyboard is not progammable its using the default, german-ISO layout. The function layer key is mapped to Caps Lock.

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