Brand new to Mechanical Keyboards, Brand new to GH

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Hey guys,

Just wanted to pop in real quick and introduce myself, My name's Justin and I haven't had a drink in 1 yea---- wait, wrong place..
I'm brand new to this community, and brand new to Mechanical Keybaords. I got into them through their aesthetic, but really got hooked when I saw the unique VIM friendly layout of PFU's HHKB. But really-mostly because aesthetic.

I'm so green I still haven't gotten my first mechanical keyboard, but am getting that taken care of as I type this (figuratively) and have a pretty solid idea of my first keyboard and what I will need to do to get it where I want and have spent a lot of my time on here recently, prior to joining, getting familiar and mining for information.

Hopefully I won't ask too many stupid questions, I'm pretty familiar with how to use the forum search function, and I can't wait to have a few replies under my belt and a few friends in the community.

I'm not nearly as cheery as I sound here, I'm just excited.
Thanks guys!

[rowdy]

Welcome to Geekhack!

The forum search is a bit spotty, you'd be better off using Google and prefixing your search with site:geekhack.org

To get you started, the recommended reading thread contains some excellent links.  And changes are a question you think of may already have been answered in the simple questions thread.

HHKB is great - one of my favourite keyboards

By the way, if you're a fan of Vim, did you know there's some Vim keycaps?

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Welcome to Geekhack!
The forum search is a bit spotty, you'd be better off using Google and prefixing your search with site:geekhack.org
To get you started, the recommended reading thread contains some excellent links.  And changes are a question you think of may already have been answered in the simple questions thread.
HHKB is great - one of my favourite keyboards
By the way, if you're a fan of Vim, did you know there's some Vim keycaps?

Hey Rowdy,
Thanks for the greet, the heads up about praying to Google working better and the great links, especially the Vim keycaps, love those. Custom key caps was one of the most appealing aspects of mechanical keyboards for me at first before I realized there is so much more to them. Can't wait!

[rowdy]

Welcome to Geekhack!
The forum search is a bit spotty, you'd be better off using Google and prefixing your search with site:geekhack.org
To get you started, the recommended reading thread contains some excellent links.  And changes are a question you think of may already have been answered in the simple questions thread.
HHKB is great - one of my favourite keyboards
By the way, if you're a fan of Vim, did you know there's some Vim keycaps?

Hey Rowdy,
Thanks for the greet, the heads up about praying to Google working better and the great links, especially the Vim keycaps, love those. Custom key caps was one of the most appealing aspects of mechanical keyboards for me at first before I realized there is so much more to them. Can't wait!

It is amazing how long we can use keyboards before finding out that swapping keycaps is a thing.

I couldn't wait once I got my, er, second modern mechanical keyboard.  My first was a Ducky Shine, and I didn't want to lose the backlighting.  My second (or was it third?) was a QFR, and I have a terminal keyboard with MX black switches, so I swapped keycaps around.  Bought a set of white on red modifiers and mixed and matched.  And I haven't looked back since!