[smashed]

I don't use windows daily but was trying to add an additional keyboard layout (US English) to a family member's windows 10 PC today.

Searching for such a simple thing in the control panel was infuriating to say the least. I finally found it, random clicking in every potential places and it was in the most unintuitive place you could think of.

You would expect "keyboard layout" search to bring helpful results but it does not.

[mkl]

I seem to get a link to the right settings place after typing "ke" into the start menu on Windows 10. "keyboard layout" indeed does not work, but "keyboard" or part of it does.

[geraldhh]

just wait till windows randomly decides to add some other layouts and mess with the switching order

[philistine]

WHY DOES IT DO THAT!!!?

[ChuckNorris89]

It doesn't? I'm multilingual and always had 3 keyboard languages in parallel and never had any of those issues happen in 15+ years and 6 versions of Windows.

Most likely he was hitting alt+space by accident which cycles through them without him realizing.

Hot take: I feel like a lot of Windows issues people raise are actually user errors/accidents, then blaming the OS for it.

[accoil]

Could be ctrl+shift. It's easy to mistype, and there's no UI feedback. Also used to only change a single window's language (not sure if that's the case anymore, as I use win+space).

[thfuran]

Systemic user error is a software defect.

[ChuckNorris89]

How the user mashing random keys a SW defect? The SW does what you tell it to do.

[thfuran]

If enough people are unaware that they're telling the software to do something and are confused by its behavior, then the software needs to better indicate what it's doing and why.

[dmonitor]

Random mysterious keybinds that nobody asked for