[c-fe]

1. The author mentions that the french (belgian) layout is more popular in luxembourg that the swiss (french) layout. Anecdotally, I can not agree with this. As a luxembourgish person, encountering many keyboards in schools, offices, through laptops i bought etc, the swiss (french) layout is by far the most common. I have never seen an Azerty used in practice except by french people. The second most common seems to be German Qwertz, that could also be because there is no amazon.lu but instead most people i know order through amazon.de which of course mostly shows german keyboards so its easy to buy it on accident.

2. I once did an exchange semester of university in France, where i was forced to use their computers for programming. Not only did I start 2 weeks after the other students due to timing issues with my primary university, but then I also had some very stressful weeks learning to program on azerty keyboards. It was very painful at first and i nearly went back to two-finger typing, but in the end after 5 months i became more fluent than i expected on azerty.

3. 3 years ago (i was around 24 years old) I decided to switch from my layout i used until then (ISO, swiss french) to the Ansi Us layout, and I am happy i did the switch. It is so much better for programming, especially wrt to [] {} (). And I even prefer typing diacritics by using US international. I write fluently in french and german with this and I like it. The main pain point was switching from vertical to horizontal enter, I typed \ for months...

[TacticalCoder]

> As a luxembourgish person, encountering many keyboards in schools, offices, through laptops i bought etc, the swiss (french) layout is by far the most common. I have never seen an Azerty used in practice except by french people.

I won't disagree with that but, living in Luxembourg, I head to the closest supermarket, a "Cora" also selling keyboards, mice, USB sticks, etc. and I can buy an AZERTY layout if I want to (they've got both QWERTZ and AZERTY keyboards).

That said, just like you: I type using a QWERTY layout.

[c-fe]

Yeah good point, I also checked hifi.lu and saturn.lu and in both cases azerty seems to be top suggested choice. Its just weird to me, because I have never encountered azerty in the wild in luxembourg. All family, friends (all but one), colleagues, .. use the swiss layout. And I also know that default choice at university of luxembourg and the government is swiss french...

[ejolto]

You can use US international layout on an ISO keyboard, then you get is access to all the types of parenthesis while keeping the vertical enter. That's what I do, it doesn't matter what lettes are on the key caps.

[c-fe]

I was aware of this, but I chose to go to Ansi since it seemed that lots of gaming and special ergonomic keyboards used Ansi and i may be curious in the future to try them