Cherry MX 3.0 S Wired Mechanical Keyboard, Black

I'll say that this keyboard is solid. It's not going to slide around on your desk and don't drop it on your toes. Typing on it is very easy, although there is some accustomization necessary. The separation between the main set of keys and the arrows and other functions, and between those keys and the numeric keypad, is a little smaller than customary. This actually matters if your fingers are long used to the larger spacing. You reach for the down arrow and oops, you actually hit the right arrow. There is just enough tactile feedback for it not to be a problem detecting a successful keystroke. Now, I ordered this to get the Cherry silent red switches. I find they are no quieter than the red swiches on my smaller Cherry keyboard, one without the numeric keypad. Furthermore there is an annoying thump at the bottom of each keystroke. I wanted a fully quiet keyboard as promised and I didn't get that. There are other issues. The printing on the keycaps is in some sort of hip minimalist style. It's faint, small, and goes for little icons on shift, tab, etc. That's not at all helpful. Now, I like to run without a backlight on the keyboard but that's a non-starter with this model. Unless you have great vision, and I don't, you can't tell what's what. Certainly we all know the main keys by feel but when you want, for instance, PrtScr, you really do need the backlight. You can choose all sorts of lighting patterns. For the sake of practicality I just leave it as a fixed white backlight. If you want ripples and rainbows, go for it, but with the tiny symbols and printing, I don't see that as being practical. Is this a gamer's keyboard? I'm not a high-speed gamer so I can't say with authority, but it's doubtful. Is this a typist's/office keyboard? More likely so, although the keycap printing issue is a bit of a stumbling block, as is the underlying rumble, and the non-standard spacing. One more thing. There is no adjustable tilt and it's quite high. I need a wrist rest to use with it. To be fair I've experienced this on other Cherry keyboards. So bottom line: I'm returning it and I certainly can't recommend it. There are just too many issues and too many disappointments. I plan to spend a little more and get something a lot better. I didn't work with the software, which is for Windows and I don't have a Windows computer. I will say the keyboard is 100% plug and play on my Arch Linux system, but I would have expected as much.