Beautiful and pleasant, but ... to be thrown away after 2 years
This keyboard is a dream to use (especially with the volume control wheel, it's a total blast)
It is beautiful and the lighting is really impressive.
The only negative point is that the lighting modes can only be changed when the SWARM software is running, so under Linux, it becomes a very nice normal keyboard with no customization possibilities.
On the other hand, very bad point:
After two years of use, some of the keys are starting to lose their touch.
You blow on it and it starts again, except that after a few months, it starts again and it spreads to other keys.
After contacting Roccat, for this keyboard, the key switches are soldered to the bottom of the keyboard, so it's not possible to replace them.
The keyboard is just good for the bin! What a waste of money and ecology!
I saw on their website that they now make keyboards with optical switches that can be replaced.
I'm not sure if I'll buy this brand again, but one thing is for sure, I'll make sure the switches can be changed/replaced!