RK ROYAL KLUDGE R75 Mechanical Keyboard Wired with Volumn Knob, 75% TKL Custom Gaming Keyboard Gasket Mount RGB Backlit with Software, MDA Profile, Hot Swappable Silver Switch, PBT Keycaps (US Layout)

Beautiful keyboard
This keyboard is great, the feel of the keys, the sound it makes, its a stunner!! It sounds even better in person than it does on videos. The lights are great, so many options! Its nice and hefty too, proper solid keyboard

as described. lovely keyboard but isn’t QMK (which I assumed it was)
I was expecting to be able to plug this thing in and do the usual pantomime in VIA by pulling the R75 QMK .json file from the RK website, loading it as a new definition and customising the keyboard with my usual macros. The keyboard shows up in via as an R75 and you get to load the json but you never get the keyboard in the VIA app to map. It took me a few moments of messing about before I realised this is what happens when the device isn’t a QMK device. But I bought an R75, right, and they’re QMK programmable, right. Erm… wrong. After doing some digging on redit and places I realised that RK DO NOT MAKE IT VERY CLEAR if a model has QMK firmware or not. In fact an R75 is an R75 regardless of QMK or not, i.e. it’s the same model number and everything but unless they specify QMK in the item description (which isn’t mentioned here so I can’t really argue) then the keyboard will use the old skool propriety windows driver (which sucks as I use only a Mac / Linux in my day to day use). I’m really not happy about this and the fact that it is not made clear that there are multiple versions of the same product with completely different firmware.Rant over, it’s a nice keyboard, with lovely feeling keys and as proper old skool, “thuk” to they keys. It reminds me of the kind of experience I had back in the 1980s when typing on something like an Acord Electron. The volume button is a nice touch and I think you can still do a lot of customisation of the RGB lighting and stuff without the software by using the function button to cycle through patterns. The most bizarre thing though is that the letters are priunted onto the key caps like normal. So what’s the point of the RGB anyway as if it is dark you cannot see the light coming through the letters on the keys like you can with the R65 etc.The keyboard might take a bit of getting used to if , like me, you’re a bit fat fingered as the actuation point of the switches is fairly high and so not a lot of force is needed to “press” a key which leads to me mashing a few keys together sometimes, but that’s probably a me problem as I’m not the most dexterous at the best of times. I love the feel and sound of the keys though, it’s lovely. They caps also feel so much nicer than any of the other mech keyboards i’ve had including the R65. I feel a bit bad for knocking a star off but it should be clear whether a system uses one firmware or another if you sell essentially different boards with the same model number. But hey.I was in two minds whether to return the keyboard and get a QMK one later but I think I’ll just keep this and probably use it for taking to work and non-gaming related tasks, but we’ll see. If you’re fine with the windows config software then of course this will not be a problem for you.

Honestly so Happy
The keyboard is very lovely in design. The colours are beautiful and the RBG lights are lovely feature. The keys feel soft and are very nice to type with.The sound is amazing and it’s even softer IRL.Nice and compact. Appears sturdy and well built.Comes with extra switches.Only negative is the instructions are slightly difficult to understand

Gorge
i’ve been desperately searching for a green keyboard with a good price to match my set up and it’s been perfect. i love the sound and you can change the rgb to a more pastel tone and it’s beautiful.