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Sensor doesn't matter really, the magmech sockets in the Fun60 might if you want the option to back out to electromechanical switches if magnetic doesn't cut it for you... but you can get whole other 60% keyboard for the price difference, and probably better software too. I would wait until the Keyc

Monsgeek M1 v5 VIA * The platonic ideal of a consumer 75% AL but seem to be out of stock, I guess we're waiting for v6. Akko 5075B VIA * The M1's plastic pal. Womier WD75 * Glencreag WK84 * Wood is an amazing case material. I have done some significant hacks on the WK84 source code online so it's legit.

Keychron J2 HE. https://www.amazon.com/Keychron-Keyboard-Hot-Swappable-Ultra-Fast-Non-Shine-Through/dp/B0GD7FLJFF The cheapest QMK firmware magnetic board you can get. They have told me they will be releasing the source code.

Get a Keychron J2 he. It's relatively inexpensive particularly for a Keychron, it's got a great layout, and it's got TMR sensors and qmk firmware.

There is no such thing as "qmk launcher". Qmk is a set of C programs that provide keyboard services to a keyboard. A qmk-based keyboard uses qmk firmware to do all the keyboard stuff. You configure a qmk keyboard through a web application... either VIA or VIAL. Keycron's keyboards are based on qmk f

And yet that software is state of the art and better than basically every proprietary alternative. For example, most proprietary boards only have two layers. Main and function. Some don't allow you independent programming of the function layer at all. A few add an alternate profile layer for main an

Changing the case is not really practical in most boards over 60%, and even for small boards you have the deliberately look for Pok3r/GH60 style options to get that ability. The one exception is the YMDK YMD75: YMDK has a number of cases for it and you can also use some KPRepublic cases with minor s

It's only a different front end to QMK, and QMK has no native support for more than a basic set of canned modes. I haven't played around with them much, I'm not a real backlight fan, but I thought they had more than a couple of modes that supported custom hues. I have modified my Keychron J2 to supp

I missed your requirements about needing to fit into Keychron's QMK boards. That's the "terrible software..." bit. :( Yeh, I'm familiar with Sunder, not only is it super expensive, but it's also out of stock as is normal for limited run custom kit. There was someone in OLKB who was working on open s

Gamepad emulation (the part you describe as "The harder I push, the more input") is available only on a few boards besides Wooting and all of them over your budget. The closest one to your budget with such functionality is Keychron K2/J2 HE, but I'm not really a fan of Keychron HE boards sinсe you c