My recommendation: Look at "For Gamers!!" keyboards. Some are smaller and have bad layouts, but some are pretty awesome and have programmable buttons. Currently I use a cheap, basic keyboard because it does what it should and feels okay to the touch. It's a Phillips SP-something-mketty-number. Nothing special. However I do like gaming mice for working in programs like GIMP/Inkscape/etc. Programmable buttons like Shifft/Control save a lot of time. I have some buttons reserved for tools, tools, to. And regular stuff like Ctrl+F temporarily for when editing a document... but back to keyboards, Red Dragon stuff isn't super high quality, but you'll get Logitech level quality without Logitech pricing (Logitech equivalent of my mouse is 4x the price, so even if it gave up the ghost each year, I'd be fine with that -- Canyon were good until they realised they were good and upped their prices.
Anyway, here's an example:
Worry-free Wired Trans: A USB-A to USB-C solid cable guarantees you the most stable key registrations from any precise daily work or intense gaming case. Blocks out any possible signal interference and removes the psychological concern of cordless delay. Frosted Metal Cover: The top board of the...
www.redragonzone.com
(ignore the Engrish, it's not the red flag it once was, a lot of Chinese stuff is pretty good)
As others said, mechanical keyboards are nice. Not only because you can feel you're typing, s you dn't sometimes miss a ltter (lol), but being able to replace keys is a major advantage in multi-language setups or just highlighting important keys.
Personally I miss the old layouts with full-sized Enter keys and a small backspace next to '\' but the few that I see do something else modern and while I'm sure the "perfect" keyboard is out there, TBH, I have more pressing things to save for (like an Exos 16TB HDD upgrade for example -- my storage is running low because I'm an archiver of certain things that will be lost in the mists of time if people like me don't because archive.org is under regular attack... and that's all I dare say on this forum, nudge, nudge, wink, wink, at what I mean).