I used a das with blank keys and cherry blues for some years, got tired of looking for the characters under the numbers (never could reach them from the home row) and got a wasd keyboard with the number symbols printed there and nothing else.<p>At the same time, coincidentally, I switched to cherry Browns. Best. Decision. Ever.<p>I still have my das at home, and the wasd at the office, but I&#x27;m going to have to get a second wasd for home, switching back to the das every evening is too painful.<p>The other thing that is critical for making mechanical keyboards usable is a foam wrist rest. Even a cheap one from the web without testing will do wonders for mechanical keyboards with their keys set high. (I think the one good thing about the apple keyboards was that they keys were low enough to avoid those things.)