Perhaps asking in a windows forum would be more appropriate.
Have you tried
sfc /scannow?
Why is insert any thing so complicated in Windows compared to GNU + Linux?
Because Linux is just a kernel.
It is pretty easy on KDE.
They manage to make it so complicated it’s a whole thing to even just delete the default keyboard layout it thinks should be the default for your language too, if it stops adding it back at all.
I want “French (Canada)”, not " Canadian multilangual english CSA" or “Canadian multilangual french CSA”.
It’s not like any of them even matches the US keyboards we end up using anyway, everyone knows the labels on the keycaps never matches what key it actually prints. Just let me pick the god damn layout I want.
On Mac it’s even worse because you have to install it from some random dude’s GitHub, and because it’s a third-party layout, it straight up won’t let you delete the default one just in case, and I have to switch it back whenever it mysteriously decides to switch to the other one on its own for no reason.
On Linux:
loadkeys cfand done.Personally on Mac I never had to change my layout again, and if I had to it’s just an icon to click and it stays that way. On windows however, like you said, it’s a nightmare
I don’t know about these days, but I remember making a custom layout for Windows back in 2005 that was US Qwerty keyboard plus AltGR+auose for äüö߀ (German umlauts and euro symbol).
I forget how I did it, as I haven’t used Windows for serious work in years.
Presumably you downloaded Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (MSKLC), which I still had to do to make a custom keyboard layout in 2022. Funnily enough I was also wanting to use AltGr to add diacritics to vowels, because I don’t want to have to go to the backtick key for àèìòù
It’s just WIN + Spacebar, or click the keyboard layout icon in the taskbar.
I meant adding the layout
Win + spacebar doesn’t work in some cases and if something is opened in fullscreen, closing it isn’t very convenient. The actual key binding that works is alt + shift I think.
Technically alt + shift changes between languages and ctrl + shift changes between layouts within the current language. Win + spacebar circles through all of them. So if you want to change from qwerty to dvorak I don’t think alt + shift will work, at least in windows 10.
I absolutely hate that there are 3 ways to change my keyboard layouts. I very often hit control shift and since it’s hidden that the layout was changed I wonder why the last sentence I wrote is gibberish…
what? it LITERALLY asks if you want to add an additional keyboard when you set it up for the first time. and adding one afterwards isn’t hard.
circlejerk post.
Not relevant to public computers
For what it’s worth, making a custom layout actually is a huge pain in the arse. That’s a pretty niche use case, but there is definitely no reason for it to be as much of a hassle as it is
You can’t delete the default one it thinks you will use based on your locale, and it reverts to the default on boot. Also has the worst shortcut to silently change the layout (contol+shift)
Because Windows sucks?
damn, must have taken you a few nights to come up with this one
This is a Linux community. Not sure what you imagine most people here think of windows…
you are the reason people hate Linux users, you cant just let people do what they want, always has to be some competition and “windows sucks”.
just be normal, windows has its place whether it’s for you or not.
“Wait, you all aren’t American?”
