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Title: Linus Torvalds Returns To Mechanical Keyboard After Making Too Many
Typos

Link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/05/13/144222...

Linux creator Linus Torvalds has abandoned his six-month experiment with a
quieter low-profile keyboard in favor of his old mechanical one with Cherry
MX Blue switches. In a post about Linux 6.15-rc6 on LKML.org, Torvalds
explained that his typing accuracy suffered without the tactile feedback. "It
seems I need the audible (or perhaps tactile) feedback to avoid the typing
mistakes that I just kept doing," Torvalds wrote. The famously outspoken
developer couldn't recall why he initially switched to the quieter keyboard,
as he doesn't work in a shared office where the noise would disturb others.
After the failed experiment with the unnamed quiet keyboard, Torvalds has now
returned to what he describes as a "noisy clackety-clack" input device. He
joked that since he can no longer blame his keyboard for typos, "going
forward, I will now conveniently blame autocorrect."

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