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I used the Finnish layout almost exclusively for 20+ years, and I didn't find it particularly inconvenient. I needed äö at least as often as ()[]{}/|\$@, and no
by jltsiren 2y ago
I used the Finnish layout almost exclusively for 20+ years, and I didn't find it particularly inconvenient. I needed äö at least as often as ()[]{}/|\$@, and no alternate layout was clearly better than the default.
If there was a dedicated Finnish layout (instead of a shared Finnish/Swedish one), it could be a bit better by using the å key for something more common. But apart from that, I haven't seen any suggestions that would make the layout better.
- CRConrad 2y agoI find that some keyboard shortcuts, in programs that use "weird" keys like, say, Alt-semicolon or Ctrl-backslash, don't work with a Nordic keyboard. I've hypothesised it's because we need to use modifiers to get to those characters in the first place; maybe the programs read keyboard scan codes directly in stead of OS-mediated character codes (or vice versa), Idunno... You never run into that?
- theshrike79 2y agoYea, there are some programs that expect me to be able to press Ctrl-/ or something - but / is shift-7 so i'd actually have to press ctrl-shift-7, which in 99.9% of cases never works. It's easier to just remap the shitty hotkeys to something better.