I’ve used a US-QWERTY keyboard layout my entire life. I’ve seen other layouts that do things like reduce the size of the enter/backspace keys, move the pipe operator (|) and can’t wrap my head around how I would code on those.

What are your experiences? Are there any layouts that you prefer for coding over US English? Are there any symbols that you have a hard time reaching ($ for example)?

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the only annoyances are that to use the slash you need to use shift

Oof, that sounds really annoying. I can’t possibly imagine how I would use the terminal that way

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After a while it becomes muscle memory; the good thing is that you can see if someone is a programmer/linux user because the key for the numer 7 is more worn out than most of the others

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On Czech keyboard I use AltGr+q and it’s fine, muscle memory really does the hard work for you.

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