The penguin emperor said he had wasted the last six months trying to love a “quieter low-profile keyboard” but had given up and gone back to the glorious racket of Cherry blue switches.

 Torvalds admitted: I gave it half a year thinking I'd get used to it, but I'm back to the noisy clackety-clack of clicky blue Cherry switches. It seems I need the audible (or perhaps tactile) feedback to avoid the typing mistakes that I just kept doing.".

Torvalds questioned why he bothered torturing himself in the first place, since working from home means nobody else is around to complain about his personal symphony of clacks.

"It's not like I'm in some office where the noise of my keyboard can disturb others. I mention this only in case people have reacted to my typos. Or maybe it's just me, and I'm just conveniently blaming the keyboard. Anyway, going forward, I will now conveniently blame autocorrect since I can't blame the keyboard."

While his typo rate might have risen to human levels, it has not derailed progress on Linux 6.15, which Torvalds said was “fairly normal” after producing a sixth release candidate.

“We've got a bit more commits than we did in rc5, which isn't the trend I want to see as the release progresses, but the difference isn't all that big and it feels more like just the normal noise in timing fluctuation in pull requests of fixes than any real signal,” he wrote.

“So I won't worry about it. We've got another two weeks to go in the normal release schedule, and it still feels like everything is on track.”

Phoronix nerds are all a-flutter about Linux 6.15 anyway, namechecking Intel’s new Advanced Performance Extensions, Rust-written drivers for Nvidia gear, and faster boot code as some of the shinier bits landing in the release.