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 t

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...