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After programming with a danish keyboard layout for a few years which require double modifier such as ctrl + alt + 8 to make { or [ I noticed on US keyboard la

by Zekio 9y ago

After programming with a danish keyboard layout for a few years which require double modifier such as ctrl + alt + 8 to make { or [ I noticed on US keyboard layout you only have single key modifier and only have two characters per key instead of three, which I then bought a laptop with and it is an amazing difference after typing for 8 hours especially because you do less weird postures with your hand in order to make a single character. Never gone back to the danish keyboard layout, I now only keyboards with the US keyboard layout and it is actually possible to use hotkeys in most software now as well yay!

ogrim 9y ago
I am in the same situation. I only switch to Norwegian layout when typing emails, all other times I use US layout. The keyboard is blank, so no confusion with keys either.
- rhaps0dy 9y ago
  Same, but with a Spanish keyboard, and non-blank keys. In fact Spanish keyboards are physically like UK keyboards, so slightly different from US keyboards, so the layout I've now gotten most used to is nonexistent. Note the different shape of the Enter key, and the additional key on the bottom left: https://d25rq8gxcq0p71.cloudfront.net/language-guide/758/es-keyboard.jpg https://d25rq8gxcq0p71.cloudfront.net/language-guide/758/es-... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/KB_United_States-NoAltGr.svg/900px-KB_United_States-NoAltGr.svg.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/KB...
btschaegg 9y ago
I had the same experience. I tried the US keyboard because I was starting to use Vim-bindings and stuck to it. Now I have actually more trouble with keyboards that use my locale (mainly because of muscle memory). For umlauts, I use the US-intl keyboard, which works great. The only thing that bothers me a bit is that I can't configure vanilla Windows to use capslock to switch between US and US-intl (which works on my private Linux machine). On another note: I find it really strange that most keyboard locales actually change very little except for screwing up programming symbols...

by Zekio 9y ago

ogrim 9y ago

I am in the same situation. I only switch to Norwegian layout when typing emails, all other times I use US layout. The keyboard is blank, so no confusion with keys either.

rhaps0dy 9y ago
Same, but with a Spanish keyboard, and non-blank keys. In fact Spanish keyboards are physically like UK keyboards, so slightly different from US keyboards, so the layout I've now gotten most used to is nonexistent. Note the different shape of the Enter key, and the additional key on the bottom left: https://d25rq8gxcq0p71.cloudfront.net/language-guide/758/es-keyboard.jpg https://d25rq8gxcq0p71.cloudfront.net/language-guide/758/es-... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/KB_United_States-NoAltGr.svg/900px-KB_United_States-NoAltGr.svg.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/KB...

btschaegg 9y ago

I had the same experience. I tried the US keyboard because I was starting to use Vim-bindings and stuck to it. Now I have actually more trouble with keyboards that use my locale (mainly because of muscle memory). For umlauts, I use the US-intl keyboard, which works great. The only thing that bothers me a bit is that I can't configure vanilla Windows to use capslock to switch between US and US-intl (which works on my private Linux machine). On another note: I find it really strange that most keyboard locales actually change very little except for screwing up programming symbols...