I'm from Finland and have an used Thinkpad that originally came from Germany and has a German keyboard layout. As long as you can touch type, it's not actually

I'm from Finland and have an used Thinkpad that originally came from Germany and has a German keyboard layout. As long as you can touch type, it's not actually an issue at all, since I can just switch the keyboard layout to Finnish in the OS and go from there - the keyboard has the same amount of keys in all the same places, after all. The only time I've had an issue in this regard is with US keyboards, because the physical key layout is actually different. Most notably, "international" keyboard layouts have a a button next to left shift that's missing from US keyboards, which is used to write <, >, and | in the Finnish layout (and most other intl layouts), and no key maps to it if you switch to a Finnish layout on a US keyboard. This made programming an exercise in great frustration. (I also really didn't like the short Enter, I kept constantly hitting the button above it due to having used a tall Enter for all of my life before.)