C3 Pro QMK/VIA Wired Mechanical Keyboard

What’s your budget? I have the Keychron C3 at work and it’s pretty good.

i have a keychron c3 pro, and after i spammed some keys (not sure which), the lights became dimmer. on the one color setting, rather than being orange, it was purple. i am relatively new to mechanical keyboards, so please be patient. i am on linux so some solutions might not work for me. thanks! https://preview.redd.it/su33duno7nof1.png?width=710&format=png&auto=webp&s=eb76e947ab117ee8962c74d002c72d5a2ce6c00e

if qc is a priority i would stick to something that has less points of failure (as often cheap hotswap wireless boards from oem brands like ajazz, cidoo, redragon, aula use low quality pcbs and sockets) such as a keychron c3 pro or lemokey x3/4/5/6

Consider: Keychron C3 Pro TKL, Durgod Taurus K320 TKL, WASD Code V3 TKL. The Keychron is a daily driver now, stunningly high quality for its price.

There's no best keyboard. It's all preference. Well the answer is to walk into a shop and try them all honestly. I started with a kbt race brown switches, to filco majestouch 2 red switch, swapped the red to durock t1 tactiles, used ducky, ikbc, daskeyboard which were mix of blue and some switches I forgot. Also Anne pro 1 for a bit, and finally recently ended up with a keychron with mmd holy panda tactile switches but then swapped to gateron milky yellow linear switches. I've tried most of the keyboard layouts and switch types. Clicky, tactile, linear. I've never used the numpad ever, I don't use most of the home/pgup/pgdwn keys so 75% was the best for me. I just need the delete key and an F row and arrow keys. Find out what keys you use. Then walk into a shop and try the different sizes, try the switches, get one which have hot swappable switch feature(quite common now). Every keyboard sounds different. Different switches and keycaps will sound different on one keyboard and another. So if you want certain sound characteristics then you need to research on what materials are most often known for said sounds. Then try them out and hope you get the sound you want. It's trial and error. Go out and try as many as possible. There's no easy way if you really care. I personally avoid clicky switches because I don't like having to release the click before pressing the key down again while gaming. If you just want a "gaming" keyboard. Just search for famous brands and throw a dart on a dartboard. Modern mkbs are pretty good in quality these days. Double typing is more of a luck thing imo after trying so many. Durable, most modern mkbs are really durable like from keychron.