> It's pretty common nowadays for developers to simply prefer the US layout if their country's is not great For a long time, I've been using a modifcation of t

> It's pretty common nowadays for developers to simply prefer the US layout if their country's is not great For a long time, I've been using a modifcation of the US layout with an additional modifier giving me äöüÄÜÖß in the places where they would be on a German keyboard. Works very well, as I need []{}\| much more frequently than the umlauts. And as it's a OS layout change, it works no matter if the physical keyboard has German or US layout.