Bit of a rant, but what happened for UK sellers to stop providing support for UK-ISO layouts? At best, you get a bastardised version of the UK layout wherein the usual US layout is preserved (’ and " sharing a key, 3 and #, 2 and @) and then the a £ symbol being slapped onto the 3 key to share with #, which is just plain fiddly to use.
Sure, I could just replace the keycaps in question, but keycap sellers are just as bad. At best, I’ve found someone willing to print on UK layout legends onto keys that have already been printed in another (usually US) layout. That, or I get custom caps printed in mismatched colours, profiles, etc. to the ones I already have, which is just as annoying at best, or impossible at worst.
It’s a first world problem, sure, but the UK ISO layout seems to be utterly dominant in the laptop space that it frustrates me that keyboards aren’t shown the same kind of basic attention. I don’t even care about the damn £! I just want my other keys to not be hidden behind weird key combos!!
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Small market that got even harder to sell to after brexit coupled with a shrinking economy thanks to a decade and change of tory rule.
I know this is probably the correct answer. Still wish there was at least the UK-based keycap sellers (there’s a couple!!) at least catered for my unwillingness to learn a slightly different layout :'(
Okay, look, I did just notice that Keychron offers replacement keys that have the layout I sorta want (I still want Windows/Linux AND Mac legends combined on the same caps!!!) but I’m still going to be grumpy, as is my right !!! >:(
This is a lot of why I ended up just pulling the trigger on an ergo and blank caps.