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I started out on Void, then to Arch and finally to Artix. The Artix experience really feels like a mix of Arch and Void to me. As for gaming, I'm really not a big gamer at all, not having played for years. I do remember playing Minecraft without issues as well as a few Steam games such as CSGO. So it's fine as far as I can tell.

Akari must watch out in order to not get ✨akarin✨-ed into Chinatsu's hair dimension!

I'm on Artix and I have removed sudo after installing doas. I do have a symlink sudo -> /usr/bin/doas in /usr/bin. Have had this configuration for about a year, nothing broke.

Our society is not robust enough to handle Tomo-Yukko.

Well spotted! I didn't notice. Pretty sure she is indeed.

No stabs 👍 All my homies hate stabs.

Very nice! I like it when characters have their hair differently sometimes. I also really like it when characters do each others hair. Sakurako looks so cute with her braided bangs 🥰

I see, didn't know about the new Cherry switches. Regarding Cherry giving up the lead in the enthusiast space, I think it's even worse. GMK bought their tooling from cherry when they started. Cherry could not only have been a leader in switches but in double shots at the same time...

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Haha, get yourself a nice scarf I guess :) I have been knitting a blanket for the coming winter lately. Went for a thick, soft and fluffy polyester thread. "fuwa fuwa"

What switches do people use now?

The "now" part I'm not sure about because I'm out of the hobby for some years. The "people" part depends on who we are talking about. Maybe Cherry is still popular in boards you can buy in shops or on big online stores, I don't know. But in my time, Cherry was far from a popular choice to put in custom keyboards. Almost all switches used were cherry style switches, meaning they fit the same keycaps, are roughly of the same size, fit in the same pcb's, etc. But people usually get them from other companies, eg Kailh, Gateron, etc. There is just more choice in terms of materials, colours, bump profile, smoothness, springs, click mechanism, you name it. It was also common to combine switches, like using the top of one switch with the bottom of another or swap stems. Other brands were perceived to be higher quality. Cherrys were known for being scratchy instead of smooth, having a weak tactile bump, clicky variations being rattly instead of crisp as well as lacking in some other areas such as stem wobble and sound. For example, I'm typing right now on Gateron Ink Black v2 switches lubed with Tribosys 3204, filmed with Kebo films and springs swapped for bag lubed Tx L 16mm 62gr springs. On the other hand, there is a smaller group of people that is all about vintage Cherry switches, desoldering them from old boards to use them in new builds. The sheath on the stem switches you saw are probably some sort of box switches (I think it's supposed to reduce stem wobble and thus smoothness in practice).

So basically they are in trouble and in order to appease their creditor they need to reduce costs? Moving production to China might reduce quality, but Cherry switches are only used in prebuilds for people with no knowledge or experience with custom boards so I don't think it will matter. Unless something big changed from when I stopped paying attention onward, almost nobody puts contemporary Cherry switches in their builds.