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One of many reasons i switched from a Euro ISO layout to a QWERTY ANSI layout a while ago. It took me about 3 weeks to get comfortable with QWERTY ANSI, plus an
by sparkling 6y ago
One of many reasons i switched from a Euro ISO layout to a QWERTY ANSI layout a while ago. It took me about 3 weeks to get comfortable with QWERTY ANSI, plus another 2 months to fully get back to my regular typing speed. 100% worth it tho if you need a bunch of special characters as you regularly do with most programming languages.
Some tips:
- switch out ALL you keyboards, at home, at work, on all devices
- use EurKey* for reaching special keys in your language (french, german, whatever...)
* https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu
- trinix912 6y agoWhat kind of bothers me is that while many accented letters are available just by pressing AltGr/ShiftAltGr/etc, common Slavic ones (č, š, ž...) aren't. You have to use dead keys to type them, which defeats the purpose. You can already type them in a similar way on macOS by just holding down the original letter on a Mac Canadian/Australian/EngIntl layout, but that's a pain for pretty much anyone who types a lot. These letters are used often enough to have their own keys on many localized keyboard layouts.
- whyoh 6y agoYou can use other software to remap the keys to your liking, for example MSKLC on Windows.
- beefield 6y agoHow did you cope with the horizontal enter key? That is the single most unpleasant thing whenever forced on ANSI. (I'm not a touch typist)
- whyoh 6y agoI also switched to ANSI (with a custom software layout) after using ISO for most of my life. I prefer the wider/horizontal Enter key on ANSI. I'd sometimes accidentally hit the key above it (\), but over time it got better and now it's not a problem anymore.