I live in a qwertz ISO layout country, but I use qwerty ANSI layout keyboards because I find that text editing is better with them. Makes finding a laptop pretty hard though.
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If you have the layout memorized, then what's physically shown on the keys doesn't really matter — usually switching the keyboard layout in the OS is pretty easy.
I got lucky that an american friend who brought a Thinkpad from the states gifted that to me. But in general it's not a bad option to buy used thinkpads and just replacing the keyboard. Still a bit more expensive than if that was a common option, though, of course.
I've been using Dvorak since the late 90's. When I type on a qwerty keyboard, it feels like my fingers have to fly all over the place to hit all the keys.
With that said, Dvorak has a few gremlins. The most annoying are the y/f keys where I have to shift my hands slightly to hit those keys. The copy/paste ctrl-c and ctrl-v keyboard shortcuts are also a lot less convenient but I just deal with it. It's also annoying having to rebind keys in pretty much every keyboard-heavy game.
I've never really thought of Colemak as a big enough improvement over Dvorak to relearn how to type on that layout, though if you're looking to switch from qwerty it may be worth considering. The Workman layout seems interesting.
The copy/paste ctrl-c and ctrl-v keyboard shortcuts are also a lot less convenient but I just deal with it.
Thankfully, these were only shifted one to the right in Workman.
It’s also annoying having to rebind keys in pretty much every keyboard-heavy game.
Yeah I've gotten used to that. I sometimes will do a software switch in the OS back to QWERTY if I'm playing games (my layout is determined by the OS setting rather than hardware) so that I don't have to rebind, but it doesn't always seem to work. At the very least, I don't think you can do a layout switch while the game is running. Some games also appear to intercept raw keyboard codes rather than what's being sent by the OS so they ignore the software keyboard layout anyways.
ANSI QWERTY TKL. Despite living in Germany, where we usually use ISO. I got used to it when I spent a year in the states and realized how useful it is for writing code. Now I have the differences to the German layout memorized pretty well so I just switch in software whenever I need German characters like ä or ß.
Programmers Dvorak
QWERTY, English UK.
My country is filled with AZERTY keyboards though. No, it's not France.
I use a modified Dvorak on the ZSA Moonlander mark l
QWERTY, ЙЦУКЕН, and Danish. The Danish one is the most idiotic. For example:
- The brackets are almost at the same place, but they are moved one ley to the side - it's pure fucking evil!
- To type "@", you need AltGr, and that's the only case where it's used
My own custom layout that tries to find a compromise between not fucking too much with the left side keys because of hotkeys, typing en and my mother tongue, and programming.
Also use 28 keys split keyboard, so some macros for some keys.
I swear if one of you French bastards says AZERTY, I'm gonna bring the hammer down.
AZERTY-BE 🇧🇪 With all the text written in English as it's used by french, dutch and german speaking people. For some reasons most of the symbols are at different places than the AZERTY-FR