[eterm]

It does matter, because the phyiscal keys themselves are literally in different places.

Comparison:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt1DL1fO6Zs

Note that weird abomination of a backslash key around the enter key on the US keyboard.

There's no way to just map the US keyboard to the UK one.

[dontlaugh]

Sure, I’m familiar with the weird UK layout.

[jenadine]

It is the US layout that stands out. The UK layout follows ISO 9995, which most other countries also follow.

[wpm]

And I thank god every day we don't. The ISO keyboard is awful. Left shift is too important of a key to be 1u. I don't need a massive enter key that lives on two rows. Just insane choices.

[dontlaugh]

The big enter key I do like.

But I’ve ended up using a split keyboard where every key is 1u. All language layouts map to the physical layout in basically the same way.

[happymellon]

UK is fine.

Mac UK is shit.

[dontlaugh]

It’s certainly a matter of opinion. I dislike the UK layout, except on macs where it’s just about ok.

[happymellon]

They hide # behind additional key combination, and expose §.

It's awful.

[dontlaugh]

# is in its proper place, if you grew up programming on a US-derived keyboard.

Some of the other changes aren’t great, I agree.

[happymellon]

No its not.

Shift+3 does not give you #.