[vbrandl]

I learned typing on German QWERTZ, too. I started using eurkey [0] a few years ago. For me it hits the sweet spot between good position of special characters used for programming (it's effectively QWERTY in that regard) but with common European special characters easily available. So instead of dedicated keys for ä/ö/ü, it became AltGr+a/o/u.

The switch was not to hard and in the beginning I kept using my QWERTZ keyboard. After about a year I decided to stick with it and bought a QWERTY keyboard.

Having to switch back to the QWERTZ layout of coworkers is a little awkward but it's not too bad.

[0]: https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/