I am a non German, but I spent more time using German layout than the US one. The killer feature of German keyboard: it is so natural for vim (and IDEs with vim

I am a non German, but I spent more time using German layout than the US one. The killer feature of German keyboard: it is so natural for vim (and IDEs with vim emulation) - the registers "+, "*, "~ are on the same key - `,` and `;` for backward and forward searching are on the same key - the macro operations `q` and `@` are also on the same key - `^` for the line beginning is the key left to `1`, which also makes sense for `Ctrl+^` to switch recent buffers.