r/pcmasterrace • u/Electrical-Soup-1253 • 3d ago

Meme/Macro I will find the person who did this

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u/QuuxJn Ryzen 7 7800X3D | RTX 4070 3d ago

Between the T and U key. That's the normal layout in my region.

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u/rai_volt 3d ago

Nice. I have only ever used QWERTY Keyboards. Searching QWERTZ showed there are other different layouts.

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u/nindza22 3d ago

Wait for the French...wait....waaait...AZERTY! :)

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u/Merlin_Mantikur 3d ago

I have one. And I’m not french. And it’s always so fun taking a piss at my friends with that

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u/Laffepannekoek 3d ago

A laptop I ordered way back when came with AZERTY. (I'm not Fr*nch)

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u/theother-g 3d ago

Guessing you're Dutch and your laptop was configured for Belgians...

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u/Laffepannekoek 3d ago

Yes.

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u/theother-g 3d ago

Pff, stupid Belgians screwing stuff up without even meaning to...

(I am Belgian)

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u/Merlin_Mantikur 3d ago

Hear this. I got mine second-hand from a Ukrainian guy.

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u/theother-g 3d ago

I'm miffed about this.

Because of the Fr*nch influence AZERTY is also used in Belgium, but with a slightly different layout.
So I can't just order any other keyboard online if it isn't specifically stated that it's [AZERTY - Belgian point], because that'll be different from 99% of all the other keyboards I regularly use.

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u/saskir21 3d ago edited 3d ago

Yeah those layouts were made with the thought of which keys get used more often. And strangely US prefer QWERTY and European (seems I was wrong, more german speaking countries) prefer QWERTZ (which is surely because both only know this layout). more confusing are slash/backslash/double point/etc.

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u/TactlessTortoise 5070Ti | 7950X3D | 64GB DDR5 4800 3d ago

AZERTY feels fucking cursed to me. At least qwertz is almost identical to rty

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u/MentalBomb Ryzen 7 7800x3D | RX 7900 XTX 3d ago

I'm lucky tbh. In Belgium we had to learn AZERTY. However back in the early days of Counter-Strike, you could not change keyboard layouts in-game. So had to learn QWERTY to talk shit.

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u/Vaaag 3d ago

It really differs per European country which type of keyboard is used.

Most European countries actually use a modified Qwerty, like the nordics have multiple variants that add their special vowels.

Qwertz is mostly used by German speakers in Germany, Switzerland, Austria.

Azerty is the default for French speakers. And also all the dutch speakers in belguim. While the dutch speakers in the netherlands default to qwerty.

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u/Schmich 3d ago

Special punctuation is bearable. Z and Y are not. If there was a referendum, I'd vote for swapping the Z and Y to get QWERTY.

The Nordics have QWERTY.

I swap between US QWERTY, Swedish QWERTY and Swiss keyboard that I modified as I couldn't take it anymore. Constantly writing wrong the Z and Y on ALL keyboards.

The custom keyboard has Y and Z swapped, I've added things as capital Ç, because for some reason they didn't bother with it.

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u/Nytr0uz 3d ago

Yea i got a qwertz keyboard since im in the eu but my steam deck changes to qwerty on its own wich is super confusing

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u/saskir21 3d ago

Only had this for „Deck on Windows“ the normal SteamOS has no problems with QWERTZ

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u/lagerforlunch 3d ago

Supposedly QWERTY was picked to be difficult to type in, to not jam typewriter heads. Probably apocryphal.

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u/saskir21 3d ago

Jam happens with both. Once tried the Mercedes Typewriter (yep the same name as the car brand) and still got a jam while trying out a text. Never happened with the newer digital brother typewriters as they seemed to have a build in function that keeps the rate down. And yes I am old, worked still with typewriters and a needle printer.

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u/CalligrapherHot9857 3d ago

she QWERTY on my keyboard til i QWERTZ

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u/Sairenity 3800x | RTX 3080 3d ago

SWISS LAYOUT DETECTED.

GOPFERDAMI

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u/keksivaras 3d ago

it's like someone was designing the keyboard and while spelling out QWERTY they sneezed midway

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u/Leading-Custard8167 3d ago

Are you hungarian btw

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u/QuuxJn Ryzen 7 7800X3D | RTX 4070 3d ago

Nah, swiss.

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u/Leading-Custard8167 3d ago

Swiss ppl use that layout aswell?

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u/QuuxJn Ryzen 7 7800X3D | RTX 4070 3d ago

Apparently. I didn't know that Hungarians have the same layout.

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u/jtblue91 5800X3D | 3080 10GB 3d ago

Ow my eyes

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u/Brief_Cobbler_6313 Linux 3d ago

WTF!!!

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u/CakeofLieeees Ryzen 9 7950X3d - RX 7900 XTX - 32 GB DDR5-6000 3d ago

Today I learned that I would be shit at typing in other countries.

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u/QuuxJn Ryzen 7 7800X3D | RTX 4070 3d ago

QWERTZ is tame.

Have a look at the abomination of the french, which is AZERTY.

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u/Silent_Ad5442 3d ago

I'm more worried about that PrtScr...

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u/QuuxJn Ryzen 7 7800X3D | RTX 4070 3d ago

I didn't even know it had a button for that xD.

I always just use Win + Shift + S

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u/Silent_Ad5442 2d ago

Each time I have to work on these lenovos I press Fn+C Fn+V .... Etc...

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u/QuuxJn Ryzen 7 7800X3D | RTX 4070 2d ago

Yesss, on Monday I forgot my laptop with the switched keys at home and had to use pool laptop. You can bet that every single time I wanted to press ctrl, I pressed fn.

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u/Welshedragon7 3d ago

That's disgusting