Ice Kachang Linear Switches (Hand Lubed or Unlubed)

I love the transparent stem, the rosy housing, and the copper-coloured contact leaves. Look was important to me here because these switches were going in a see-through keyboard case.

Handlubing, to me, is a lot of work for only a minor improvement. So I bought these to get the handlubing experience without the work. It's the cheap and lazy person's answer.

I love the sound and feel of these on an acrylic plate...! Makes me excited to type.

After three weeks of intense daily driving, two switches failed on me. Not a problem: they were suuuper easy to take apart and fix. Literally my first ever switch fix and it was still easier than handlubing.

Got this for my neo ergo purple board! Sounds pretty neat!

I tried these out on one board, and I liked them so much that I replaced the switches on my other two boards with these.

Unfortunately, the switches seem to start dying rather quickly. On each keyboard, it's been about 4-5 months before some switches start missing inputs. Often the more high use keys (like E and R), but then also some that see much less use.

I have Ice Kachang Tactile V2s for the modifiers, and I haven't noticed issues with them, although that could just be because they get used less often + you tend to hold modifiers for a bit rather than just tap them.

Ice Kachang Linear Switches (Hand Lubed or Unlubed)

These became my favorite switches and I love everything about them, how they sound and how they feel . They have an odd almost slightly tactile feel for a linear that I actually think is a nice . My main issue with these switches though is that despite how much I like them individual switches began to die out rather quickly for some odd reason more or so more than most switches Ived had. I had to already replace around 3-4 because they began missing inputs occasionally and causing some issues that were more noticeable whike gaming than typing (except for the space bar that was very noticeable) . I am not exactly sure why these seem to be dying out individually so quickly but otherwise I think it’s a great switch.