I moved from a German keyboard on a Mac to a US keyboard four years ago. And it definitely helped me to be able to touch type when programming. I installed the

I moved from a German keyboard on a Mac to a US keyboard four years ago. And it definitely helped me to be able to touch type when programming. I installed the USGerman Keyboard Layout [1] in macOS and have been using it ever since. It puts the umlauts at `alt + a|o|u|s` making it easy enough to type German texts as well. [1] https://hci.rwth-aachen.de/usgermankeyboard https://hci.rwth-aachen.de/usgermankeyboard