Drop Ctrl vs Glorious GMMK PRO

After four weeks the cheap Halo-brand keys started flaking out. First the V key, then the R. They were so noisy people asked me to mute my zoom calls, and these aren't the colicky model. All of this was okay, because I had a set of MX Cherry Pink on the way, but I went to replace them and the Halos refuse to budge

This kit has some of the worst stabilizers i've had the displeasure of "using". Spacebar rattles and the other ones stick. To remedy this you can try cleaning them but not like Glorious instructs on their website with isopropyl alcohol; that murks the inside of the plastic housings and makes them abrasive and scratchy rendering them useless unless you take em apart and fully de-grease them in a soapy water bath then hand dry them after a rinse. Doing that reverts the lot back to usable (as in they will function) but with more rattle

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It's really that which caught my attention. This manifests itself in not just a slew of optional extras that you can get for it, but a premium chassis...

Probably so, as you can see, it's a very minimalistic design. We have a textured silver aluminum chassis on here. It's a it's, a full aluminum build, ...

The replacement is exactly the same as the first and has the same issue, so that’s going to need some reworking on their side.. I think injection mold...

I found that if I used the QMK firmware that is provided on GitHub and flashed that the problems I was experiencing disappeared. So, the online configurator that DROP provides delivers flawed firmware, which was causing the issues. Why they are behind an active open-source communities modifications baffles me. My best guess is that it is due to the generic online QMK configurator not supporting every lighting configuration that the DROP keyboard supports (e

Time to get more custom...and along came the highly-popular GMMK Pro, mostly because I couldn't find a reasonable 100% and I wanted a rotary encoder

Firstly my package arrived two days late. No big deal. I was just excited to see what a premium keyboard feels like. My initial impression was very good

The overall typing experience of my Kailh Speed Silver and PBT keycaps build was quite good. I was surprised by how well everything fit together, resulting in a light and rattle-free touch-typing experience that’s made all the more impressive considering the GMMK Pro isn’t pre-assembled. While I wouldn’t say that it’s the best feeling keyboard I’ve used out of the box, the GMMK Pro is definitely up there.

Make it more user friendly and I’ll come back to buy a keyboard. Returning this one and going with gmmk.

The Romer-G keycaps are also bad shapewise and uncomfortable. But, I would say that if you don't care about the brand, get a Glorious GMMK. Even better, get the barebones edition for it; if it's available in your region. It's hot-swappable and compatible with many keycap sets, so you can get the exact key feel that you want to get

Save your money, it isn't worth a 1/4 of the price, I have had similar build keyboards for $50-80.

I think the price is totally worth it! I did end up buying the durock v2 stabilizers here on Amazon and I think that upgrade is a must before you assemble your board. The stock stabilizers were over lubed and just not great. I had no fitment issues putting in the durock v2s. Honestly for the price, just get those so you don't have to disassemble your whole bored again later