Not All Linears Are The Same!
Figure 1: Not even all of these (mostly) KTT-made linears are the same! After all of my years of collecting, reviewing, and obsessing over switches, I can say with certainty that linear switches are the most misunderstood of all of the switch types. No, I’m not talking about mechanically either, as all of the claims of them “just going straight up and down” are somewhat kind of true. (Not too much though, don’t get that excited.) The part that is often misunderstood, though, is usually in what is being implied when people say that these switches just go straight up and down – “All linears might as well be the same.” If the title of this article didn’t make that obvious enough to you, I find that sort of idea to be completely and utterly wrong. The people who make these implications wouldn’t say that a Cherry MX Black is the same as a Novelkeys Cream switch? They also certainly wouldn’t ever claim that every Gateron-made linear is the same as every fancy TTC one out there...
May 29, 2024
- To create an even smoother and more refined feel than the Holy Panda
- To have factory-applied lubricant that is great out of the box, but leaves room for improvement by dedicated enthusiasts.
- To create a switch that Quakemz, Invyr, and Mech27 (the Holy Panda’s original contributors) would all agree is an improvement over the original
- To create a switch that delivers more consistency than the Frankenstein-assembled Holy Panda
While there have been many replica and clone “panda” switches released since the original Panda and Holy Panda, none of them have formally involved or directly compensated the designers for their groundbreaking work. With the creation of Holy Panda X, these three creators will receive royalties for their contributions to the intellectual property of the switch.Here's a force curve of the original Holy Panda as sold on Drop.com. In coming days, we'll release more details about the modifications and the final force curve comparisons.