wanting to hop into the world of linux on a dual boot method (one of my favorite games unfortunately cannot be run on linux at all, and it’s a gacha. I don’t want to gamble with my account being banned, so I’m keeping windows for it specifically.) this’ll be my second go at it, I used Pop!_OS briefly but had some issues...
I’ve tried a couple different KDE distros and settled on Fedora 40 KDE spin. It seems to be the most complete KDE experience without all of the Canonical/snap bloat. It works great on my Thinkpad. Also runs decent on my gaming desktop using the latest Nvidia beta driver - I used to get stutters and artifacts in games/steam/plex and now with the beta driver those apps run fine
I overpaid for this… IBM Model M ashtray, for the lack of a better word. I looked at pictures of the internal assembly online, and I think there’re missing springs? For example, I can’t press the upper half of the enter key because there’s just no spring there, not even blue placeholders. I can’t exactly buy new...
Each keycap has one spring. The larger keys have a stabilizer (the blue insert). From your picture, it looks like you have all the springs. You’ll just need a blue insert for enter key, + key, and numpad enter key.
You may be able to find someone selling the stabilizer inserts on ebay for cheap. In the meantime, you can move the blue insert from numpad zero to the enter key if you use enter key more often.
I’m not all to familiar with the iso layouts. Non of my model Ms have wire stabilizer for any key other than spacebar.
Maybe your enter key is using a wire stabilizer and the wire is missing. Check the bottom of your enter key and see which type of stabilization it is using (geekhack.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=5500…). If it is using the wire and it’s missing or damaged, you can probably take the wire from the plus key and use it for enter
what's your current linux distro?
wanting to hop into the world of linux on a dual boot method (one of my favorite games unfortunately cannot be run on linux at all, and it’s a gacha. I don’t want to gamble with my account being banned, so I’m keeping windows for it specifically.) this’ll be my second go at it, I used Pop!_OS briefly but had some issues...
Anyone know of any keyboards bodies similar to this one?
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IBM Model M missing springs?
I overpaid for this… IBM Model M ashtray, for the lack of a better word. I looked at pictures of the internal assembly online, and I think there’re missing springs? For example, I can’t press the upper half of the enter key because there’s just no spring there, not even blue placeholders. I can’t exactly buy new...