It actually wasn’t that much of a PITA. It took me about an hour to remove the keycaps, remove the switches, put the new switches in and replace the keycaps. The Glorious Panda switches have a nice weight to them and I prefer them to the original browns.
I bought some lube for the switches, but decided to save that for another time, although that will mean going through the whole exercise again. The keys feel fine un-lubed, so I’m curious about how much better they would be.
It’s a little bit like replacing tubes - once you get the hang of it, you can speed up and get into a rhythm. Make sure you order a couple more switches than you need (I bent the pins on a couple, which I was able to straighten out). You’ll need a couple of specialized tools: a keycap puller (a plastic one comes with the GMMK keyboard, but I prefer the wire design in the picture below) and a switch puller (it looks like a pair of tweezers with the ends bent). Amazon has a ton of these at cheap prices.
