I&#x27;m from Finland and have an used Thinkpad that originally came from Germany and has a German keyboard layout. As long as you can touch type, it&#x27;s not actually an issue at all, since I can just switch the keyboard layout to Finnish in the OS and go from there - the keyboard has the same amount of keys in all the same places, after all.<p>The only time I&#x27;ve had an issue in this regard is with US keyboards, because the physical key layout is actually different. Most notably, &quot;international&quot; keyboard layouts have a a button next to left shift that&#x27;s missing from US keyboards, which is used to write &lt;, &gt;, and | in the Finnish layout (and most other intl layouts), and no key maps to it if you switch to a Finnish layout on a US keyboard. This made programming an exercise in great frustration. (I also really didn&#x27;t like the short Enter, I kept constantly hitting the button above it due to having used a tall Enter for all of my life before.)