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by taway1237 957 days ago
Only when typing english, I assume?
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eru 956 days ago
It works well enough for German as well, the letter frequencies aren't that different. (You just have to make some arrangements for the Umlaute etc, but they are in awkward spots on the German QWERTZ layout as well.)

I think the NEO and NEO2 layouts were designed with a variety of languages in mind.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_(keyboard_layout)

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kadoban 957 days ago
It helps if the layout is designed for the language, but qwerty is so bad that you're better off with really anything else.
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